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Webster 1913 Edition

Fasces

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Fas′ces

,
Noun.
pl.
[L.,
pl.
of
fascis
bundle; cf.
fascia
a band, and Gr.
φάκελοσ
a bundle.]
,
(Rom. Antiq.)
A bundle of rods, having among them an ax with the blade projecting, borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority.

Webster 1828 Edition

Fasces

FAS'CES

,
Noun.
plu.
[L. fascis.]
In Roman antiquity, an ax tied with a bundle of rods, and borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority.

Definition 2024

fasces

fasces

English

Noun

fasces (singular fascis)

  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

Translations

Descendants

Latin

Noun

fascēs

  1. nominative plural of fascis
  2. accusative plural of fascis
  3. vocative plural of fascis

References

  • FASCES in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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

Etymology

From Latin fasces, plural of fascis

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