Etymology

fisc

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Today it means: The public treasury of Rome. Full definition →

Middle French fisc ← Latin fiscus
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromfiscus“basket, money-bag, public treasury”
  2. Middle French · borrowed fromfisc
  3. English todayfisc

Partly from Middle French fisc and partly from its etymon, Latin fiscus (“basket, money-bag, public treasury”); see fiscal.

Words from the same roots

Latinfiscus all →

fiscalfiscus

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.