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Latin
Etymology
From fiscus (“basket”) + -na.[1]
Noun
fiscina f (genitive fiscinae); first declension
- small wicker basket (for fruit etc); punnet
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- ^ Benjamin Hall Kennedy (1883) The Public School Latin Grammar §12.xxii, page 29
Further reading
- “fiscina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fiscina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fiscina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- fiscina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.