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fisc^¹

/fɪsk/

Sounds like fisk · Rhymes with -ɪsk

Where it comes from

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

noun fiscs

Ancient Rome The public treasury of Rome.
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 […].

Fisc^²

proper noun

A surname.

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noun treasury

Español	fisco

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@misc{fisc_2026,
  title = {fisc},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fisc},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}