"fiscus" meaning in Latin

See fiscus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ˈfɪs.kʊs] [Classical-Latin], [ˈfis.kus] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Unknown. De Vaan rejects connections with findō (“I cleave”) and fidēlia (“earthen pot”); Beekes mentions obliquely the rhyme with rarer riscus, a likely Celtic borrowing into Latin and Greek. Etymology templates: {{unk|la}} Unknown Head templates: {{la-noun|fiscus<2>}} fiscus m (genitive fiscī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|fiscus<2>}} Forms: fiscī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], fiscus [nominative, singular], fiscī [nominative, plural], fiscī [genitive, singular], fiscōrum [genitive, plural], fiscō [dative, singular], fiscīs [dative, plural], fiscum [accusative, singular], fiscōs [accusative, plural], fiscō [ablative, singular], fiscīs [ablative, plural], fisce [singular, vocative], fiscī [plural, vocative]
  1. basket Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-fiscus-la-noun--nbZmtlX Categories (other): Containers Disambiguation of Containers: 49 10 4 38
  2. purse Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-fiscus-la-noun-RWaj7KYV Categories (other): Latin masculine nouns in the second declension Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 26 34 22 19
  3. treasury; public money Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-fiscus-la-noun-OV3AheRZ
  4. (Classical Latin) the assets bound to the function of the emperor Tags: Classical-Latin, declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-fiscus-la-noun-4T0NqjXh Categories (other): Classical Latin, Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 3 13 5 79
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: cōnfiscō, fisca, fiscalātus, fiscāle, fiscāles, fiscālia, fiscālinus, fiscalion, fiscālis, fiscanus, fiscārius, fiscātio, fiscātor, fiscella, fiscellus, fiscia, fisciācus, fiscina, fiscō, fiscōpatrōnus

Inflected forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "cōnfiscō"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "fisca"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "fiscalātus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "fiscāle"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "fiscāles"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "fiscālia"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "fiscālinus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "fiscalion"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "fiscālis"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "fiscanus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "fiscārius"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "fiscātio"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "fiscātor"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "fiscella"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "fiscellus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "fiscia"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "fisciācus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "fiscina"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "fiscō"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "fiscōpatrōnus"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "fisc"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "fisc"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "lang_code": "ro",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "fisc"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "fisc"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Galician",
      "lang_code": "gl",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "fisco"
    },
    {
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "Fiskus"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "fisco"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "fisco"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "fisk",
      "word": "фиск"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "fisco"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la"
      },
      "expansion": "Unknown",
      "name": "unk"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Unknown. De Vaan rejects connections with findō (“I cleave”) and fidēlia (“earthen pot”); Beekes mentions obliquely the rhyme with rarer riscus, a likely Celtic borrowing into Latin and Greek.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fiscī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fiscus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fiscī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fiscī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fiscōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fiscō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fiscīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fiscum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fiscōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fiscō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fiscīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fisce",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fiscī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fiscus<2>"
      },
      "expansion": "fiscus m (genitive fiscī); second declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fiscus<2>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "49 10 4 38",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Containers",
          "orig": "la:Containers",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "basket"
      ],
      "id": "en-fiscus-la-noun--nbZmtlX",
      "links": [
        [
          "basket",
          "basket"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "26 34 22 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "purse"
      ],
      "id": "en-fiscus-la-noun-RWaj7KYV",
      "links": [
        [
          "purse",
          "purse"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "treasury; public money"
      ],
      "id": "en-fiscus-la-noun-OV3AheRZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "treasury",
          "treasury"
        ],
        [
          "public",
          "public"
        ],
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Classical Latin",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 13 5 79",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the assets bound to the function of the emperor"
      ],
      "id": "en-fiscus-la-noun-4T0NqjXh",
      "links": [
        [
          "asset",
          "asset"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Classical Latin) the assets bound to the function of the emperor"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin",
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfɪs.kʊs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfis.kus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fiscus"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Latin 2-syllable words",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin masculine nouns",
    "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin second declension nouns",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Latin terms with unknown etymologies",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "la:Containers"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "cōnfiscō"
    },
    {
      "word": "fisca"
    },
    {
      "word": "fiscalātus"
    },
    {
      "word": "fiscāle"
    },
    {
      "word": "fiscāles"
    },
    {
      "word": "fiscālia"
    },
    {
      "word": "fiscālinus"
    },
    {
      "word": "fiscalion"
    },
    {
      "word": "fiscālis"
    },
    {
      "word": "fiscanus"
    },
    {
      "word": "fiscārius"
    },
    {
      "word": "fiscātio"
    },
    {
      "word": "fiscātor"
    },
    {
      "word": "fiscella"
    },
    {
      "word": "fiscellus"
    },
    {
      "word": "fiscia"
    },
    {
      "word": "fisciācus"
    },
    {
      "word": "fiscina"
    },
    {
      "word": "fiscō"
    },
    {
      "word": "fiscōpatrōnus"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "fisc"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "fisc"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "lang_code": "ro",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "fisc"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "fisc"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Galician",
      "lang_code": "gl",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "fisco"
    },
    {
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "Fiskus"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "fisco"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "fisco"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "fisk",
      "word": "фиск"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "fisco"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la"
      },
      "expansion": "Unknown",
      "name": "unk"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Unknown. De Vaan rejects connections with findō (“I cleave”) and fidēlia (“earthen pot”); Beekes mentions obliquely the rhyme with rarer riscus, a likely Celtic borrowing into Latin and Greek.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fiscī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fiscus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fiscī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fiscī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fiscōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fiscō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fiscīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fiscum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fiscōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fiscō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fiscīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fisce",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fiscī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fiscus<2>"
      },
      "expansion": "fiscus m (genitive fiscī); second declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fiscus<2>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "basket"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "basket",
          "basket"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "purse"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "purse",
          "purse"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "treasury; public money"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "treasury",
          "treasury"
        ],
        [
          "public",
          "public"
        ],
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Classical Latin"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the assets bound to the function of the emperor"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "asset",
          "asset"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Classical Latin) the assets bound to the function of the emperor"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin",
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfɪs.kʊs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfis.kus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fiscus"
}

Download raw JSONL data for fiscus meaning in Latin (4.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Latin dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (6fdc867 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.