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Partly from Middle French fisc and partly from its etymon, Latin fiscus (“basket, money-bag, public treasury”);^[1] see fiscal.

• IPA^(key): /fɪsk/
• Rhymes: -ɪsk

fisc (plural fiscs)

1. (Ancient Rome) The public treasury of Rome.
2. Any state treasury or exchequer.
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, page 340:

     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 […].

• fiscal

• IFSC, ICFs, fics, CIFS, SCIF, CFIs

Learned borrowing from Latin fīscus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia)

fisc m (plural fiscs or fiscos)

1. treasury, public purse

• fiscal

• “fisc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Learned borrowing from Latin fiscus.

• IPA^(key): /fisk/

fisc m (plural fiscs)

1. (economics) tax authorities, fiscal administration
   1. government department of taxation

• “fisc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

From Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *fisk, Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk- (“fish”).

fisc m

1. fish

• visc

• Middle Dutch: visch, visc, vis, vesch, fisch, fisc
  • Dutch: vis, visch (before 1934)
    • Afrikaans: vis
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: fesi
    • Jersey Dutch: väśe
    • Negerhollands: visch, vesch, fes, fis, vis
      • → Virgin Islands Creole: fis (dated)
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: fesi, fisse, fiche
    • Petjo: fis
    • →? Aukan: fisi
  • Limburgish: visj, vèsj
  • West Flemish: vissch

• “fisk”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• fix, ᚠᛁᛋᚳ (fisc) — Runic

From Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

• IPA^(key): /fiʃ/

fisċ m (nominative plural fiscas)

1. fish

• fisċere (“fisherman”)
• fiscian (“to fish”)
• fisċnett (“fishing net”)
• fisċwēr (“fishweir”)
• sċielfisċ (“shellfish”)
• *sweordfisċ (“swordfish”)

• Middle English: fisch, fysshe, fysch, fish, fische, fis, fyshe, fissh, vish
  • English: fish (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: fish, fysch, fisch
  • Yola: wish

• angol (“fishhook”)

fisc m

1. Alternative form of fisk

Borrowed from French fisc.

fisc n (uncountable)

1. (economics) fiscal administration