fascist
Meaningone of the bundle
Common meaning: a follower of fascism
- fasca bundleLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 726 · scan
- ista person who does or follows
Journey through time
- Latinfascis; plural fasces‘a bundle; the fasces were the rods and axe carried before Roman magistrates’source
- Italianfascio‘a bundle’source
- Italianmeaning shiftsa bundle → a political group, a leagueFasci di Combattimento‘a political group, a league (1919)’source
- Italianfascistasource
- Englishmeaning shiftsa political group, a league → a follower of fascismfascist‘a follower of fascism’ · today
fasc also in: fascism
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
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Origin: Built on Latin fascis ‘a bundle’, through Italian fascio and fascista.
Did you know (The name goes…): our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry FASCIS, p. 726 · dictionary scan; Edgren, An Italian and English Dictionary (Holt, 1902), entry FASCIO, p. 169 · dictionary scan; Encyclopaedia Britannica, 12th ed., vol. 31 (1922), "Italy", entry ITALY (fasci di combattimento), p. 636 · dictionary scan
Did you know (A single rod…): our wording, based on Aesop, Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, tr. G. F. Townsend (1867), Project Gutenberg #21, entry THE FATHER AND HIS SONS, p. "The Father and His Sons" · dictionary scan; Edgren, An Italian and English Dictionary (Holt, 1902), entry FASCIO, p. 169 · dictionary scan
Roots
- fascis, -is Latin “a bundle”
Related words
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