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fascio

fascio

See also: fasciò

Italian

Noun

fascio m ‎(plural fasci)

bundle (of wood)
sheaf (of hay)
bunch (of flowers)
beam (of light)
fasces (especially in plural)
fascism
(slang) a fascist
(mathematics) sheaf
(anatomy) fasciculus, bundle

Derived terms

fascione

Related terms

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Post-Classical. From fascia.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfas.ki.oː/

Verb

fasciō ‎(present infinitive fasciāre, perfect active fasciāvī, supine fasciātum); first conjugation

(rare) I envelop with bands, swathe.

Descendants

Aragonese: faxar
Aromanian: nfash, nfãshare
French: fesser
Friulian: fassâ, fašâ, infassâ, infašâ
Istriot: infasà
Italian: fasciare

Occitan: faissar
Portuguese: enfaixar
Romanian: înfășa, înfășare
Sardinian: fascài, fascare, fasciai
Spanish: fajar
Venetian: fasar, infasar

References

fascio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fascio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.