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fisc

/fɪsk/

fisc noun: the public treasury of Rome.

Noun

fisc (plural fiscs)

  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

Proper noun capitalized: Fisc

Fisc

  1. A surname.

fisc meaning in Kannada

fisc in Kannada

ರಾಜ್ಯಕೋಶ, ಖಜಾನೆ, ಬೊಕ್ಕಸ, ಭಂಡಾರ

Forms of fisc

pluralfiscs

Origin of fisc

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

Words that rhyme with fisc

Questions about fisc

What does fisc mean?
Fisc means the public treasury of Rome.
What is fisc in Kannada?
Fisc in Kannada is ರಾಜ್ಯಕೋಶ, ಖಜಾನೆ, ಬೊಕ್ಕಸ. See Fisc meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is fisc?
Fisc can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce fisc?
Fisc is pronounced /fɪsk/.
What is the plural of fisc?
The plural of fisc is fiscs.

Words near fisc in the dictionary

  1. Fisaumme
  2. fisavirus
  3. fisaviruses
  4. fisbo
  5. fisbos
  6. fisc
  7. fiscal
  8. fiscal cliff
  9. fiscal cliffs
  10. fiscal conservatism
  11. fiscal conservative

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fisc (page history and authors); Fisc (page history and authors); fisc (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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