fasces

Borrowed from Latin fasces, plural of fascis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæsiːz/, enPR: fas'-eez
• Rhymes: -æsiːz

fasces

A fasces image, with the axe in the middle of the bundle of rods

1. A Roman symbol of judicial authority consisting of a bundle of wooden sticks, with an axe blade embedded in the centre; used also as a symbol of fascism.

• Chinese: 法西斯 (fǎxīsī)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfas.keːs/, [ˈfäs̠keːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfaʃ.ʃes/, [ˈfäʃːes]

fascēs

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of fascis

• fasces 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)
• “fasces”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fasces”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin