fascio

See also: fasciò

English

Etymology

From Italian fascio.

Noun

fascio (plural fascios or fasci)

1. A bundle or sheaf.
   • 1913, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, page 38:

     The surfaces contain two fasci of curves — first, a fascio of elliptic curves, trajectories of the group, not necessarily a linear fascio; second, an elliptic fascio of curves of any genus; […]

2. (now historical) An organised Italian political group, typically one resisting state government and advocating radical change; (specifically) any of a number of groups formed around the period of the First World War.
   • 2011, David Gilmour, The Pursuit of Italy, Penguin, published 2012, page 250:

     Crispi, who became prime minister for the second time at the end of 1893, saw the fasci as promoters of revolution.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaʃ.ʃo/

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• Rhymes: -aʃʃo
• Hyphenation: fà‧scio

Etymology 1

From Latin fascis (with a change in declension).

Noun

fascio m (plural fasci)

1. bundle (of wood)
2. (by extension) a group or association
3. sheaf (of hay)
4. bunch (of flowers)
5. beam (of light)
6. fasces (usually in the plural)
7. fascism
8. (slang) a fascist
9. (mathematics) sheaf
10. (anatomy) fasciculus, bundle

Descendants

• → Slavomolisano: faš

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fascio

1. first-person singular present indicative of fasciare

Derived terms

• fascione
• fascismo
• fascista

Related terms

• affasciare
• fascia
• fasciare
• fascio littorio

Anagrams

• cafiso, fiasco, sfocai, sfocia

Latin

Etymology

Post-Classical. From fascia +‎ -ō.

Verb

fasciō (present infinitive fasciāre, perfect active fasciāvī, supine fasciātum); first conjugation (Late Latin)

1. (rare) to envelop with bands, swathe

Conjugation

   Conjugation of fasciō (first conjugation)

indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	fasciō	fasciās	fasciat	fasciāmus	fasciātis	fasciant
	imperfect	fasciābam	fasciābās	fasciābat	fasciābāmus	fasciābātis	fasciābant
	future	fasciābō	fasciābis	fasciābit	fasciābimus	fasciābitis	fasciābunt
	perfect	fasciāvī	fasciāvistī	fasciāvit	fasciāvimus	fasciāvistis	fasciāvērunt, fasciāvēre
	pluperfect	fasciāveram	fasciāverās	fasciāverat	fasciāverāmus	fasciāverātis	fasciāverant
	future perfect	fasciāverō	fasciāveris	fasciāverit	fasciāverimus	fasciāveritis	fasciāverint
passive	present	fascior	fasciāris, fasciāre	fasciātur	fasciāmur	fasciāminī	fasciantur
	imperfect	fasciābar	fasciābāris, fasciābāre	fasciābātur	fasciābāmur	fasciābāminī	fasciābantur
	future	fasciābor	fasciāberis, fasciābere	fasciābitur	fasciābimur	fasciābiminī	fasciābuntur
	perfect	fasciātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	fasciātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	fasciātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	fasciem	fasciēs	fasciet	fasciēmus	fasciētis	fascient
imperfect	fasciārem	fasciārēs	fasciāret	fasciārēmus	fasciārētis	fasciārent
perfect	fasciāverim	fasciāverīs	fasciāverit	fasciāverīmus	fasciāverītis	fasciāverint
pluperfect	fasciāvissem	fasciāvissēs	fasciāvisset	fasciāvissēmus	fasciāvissētis	fasciāvissent
passive	present	fascier	fasciēris, fasciēre	fasciētur	fasciēmur	fasciēminī	fascientur
imperfect	fasciārer	fasciārēris, fasciārēre	fasciārētur	fasciārēmur	fasciārēminī	fasciārentur
perfect	fasciātus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect	fasciātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	fasciā	—	—	fasciāte	—
	future	—	fasciātō	fasciātō	—	fasciātōte	fasciantō
passive	present	—	fasciāre	—	—	fasciāminī	—
	future	—	fasciātor	fasciātor	—	—	fasciantor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		fasciāre	fasciāvisse	fasciātūrum esse	fasciārī	fasciātum esse	fasciātum īrī
participles		fasciāns	—	fasciātūrus	—	fasciātus	fasciandus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		fasciandī	fasciandō	fasciandum	fasciandō	fasciātum	fasciātū

Descendants

• Istriot: infasà
• Italian: fasciare
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: faxar
• Old French:
  • French: fesser
• Old Occitan:
  • Occitan: faissar
• Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • ⇒ Portuguese: enfaixar
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: fajar
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: fassâ, fašâ
• Sardinian: fascài, fascare, fasciai
• Sicilian: fasciari
• Venetan: fasar
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *infasciō, *infasciāre
  • Eastern Romance:
    • Aromanian: nfash, nfashu, nfãshedz, nfãshedzu
    • Romanian: înfășa, înfășare
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: infassâ, infašâ (alternative orthography)
  • Venetan: infasar
  • → Alemannic German: iinfääsche

References

• “fascio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fascio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.