fasces

English

A fasces image, with the axe in the middle of the bundle of rods

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fasces, plural of fascis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæsiːz/, enPR: fas'-eez
• Rhymes: -æsiːz

Noun

fasces

1. A Roman symbol of judicial authority consisting of a bundle of wooden sticks, with an axe blade embedded in the centre; used also as a symbol of fascism.

Descendants

• → Hindi: फ़ासी (fāsī)

Translations

bundle

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 束棒 (shùbàng)

• Danish: fasces pl, liktorbundt n
• Finnish: fasces
• French: faisceau (fr) m
• German: Faszes pl, Liktorenbündel n
• Greek: φάσκες m pl (fáskes)
• Icelandic: axarvöndur m
• Italian: fascio (it) m fascio littorio (it) m
• Japanese: 束桿
• Macedonian: фасции pl (fascii)
• Portuguese: fasces m pl
• Russian: фасции (ru) pl (fascii), фасцы pl (fascy)

Further reading

• fasces on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfas.keːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaʃ.ʃes]

Noun

fascēs

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of fascis

References

• "fasces", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “fasces”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fasces”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin