fascis

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle, band”), see also Proto-Celtic *baski (“bundle, load”), Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos, “bundle”), Old English bæst (“inner bark of the linden tree”), Welsh baich (“load, burden”), Middle Irish basc (“neckband”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfas.kis/, [ˈfas.kɪs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ʃis/, [ˈfaʃ.ʃis]

fascis m (genitive fascis); third declension

1. A fagot, fascine; bundle, packet, package, parcel.
2. A burden, load.
3. (usually in the plural) A bundle carried by lictors before the highest magistrates, consisting of rods and an axe, with which criminals were scourged and beheaded.
4. A high office, like the consulship.

Third declension i-stem.

• (bundle): sarcina
• (fascine): crātis
• (burden, load): sarcina

• fascia

• fascia

• fascis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fascis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fascis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to walk before with the fasces; to lower the fasces: fasces praeferre, summittere