The story
- Latin · derived fromfiscalis“fiscal”
- English todayfiscality
Recorded since 1854, cognate with Dutch fiscaliteit and (derived from?) older French fiscalité, all from Latin fiscalis (“fiscal”), itself from fiscus (“imperial treasury”) + -alis (“-al”). By surface analysis, fiscal + -ity.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.