Fisc
/fɪsk/ name, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The public treasury of Rome. Ancient-Rome
- 2 a state treasury or exchequer or a royal treasury; originally the public treasury of Rome or the emperor's private purse wordnet
- 3 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 […]."
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"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 […]."
Etymology
Partly from Middle French fisc and partly from its etymon, Latin fiscus (“basket, money-bag, public treasury”); see fiscal.