fasces

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin fasces, plural of fascis.

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Noun

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fasces

A fasces image, with the axe in the middle of the bundle of rods
  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.

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Latin

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Noun

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fascēs

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of fascis

References

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  • fasces in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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