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fisc en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /fɪsk/
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Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (Ancient-Rome) The public treasury of Rome.
2. Any state treasury or exchequer.
   • When they had resolved to appropriate to the Fisc, a certain portion of the landed property of their conquered country, it was their business to render their bank a real fund of credit […]. 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, page 340:
   • He did not mention that Trump is about as popular with the British public as drug-resistant syphilis and that it would be political suicide to bribe him with cash out of the public fisc. 2026 February 3, “The End of Free Speech” (10:39 from the start), in LegalEagle, spoken by Liz Dye, retrieved 03 Feb 2026:

Forms

Relateds

confiscation · confiscate · fiscal

Translations (1)

es fisco (treasury)