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

• UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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• US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Latin fascis ‘a bundle’.

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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