# fisc
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɪsk/
* Rhymes: -ɪsk

### Noun

fisc (plural fiscs)
* (Ancient Rome) The public treasury of Rome.
* 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 […].

#### Related terms

* confiscate
* confiscation
* fiscal

### References

* ↑ “fisc | fisk, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

### Anagrams

* IFSC, ICFs, fics, CIFS, SCIF, CFIs

## Catalan
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fīscus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfisk]

### Noun

fisc m (plural fiscs or fiscos)
* treasury, public purse

#### Related terms

* fiscal

### Further reading

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

## French
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fiscus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fisk/

### Noun

fisc m (plural fiscs)
* (economics) tax authorities, fiscal administration
** government department of taxation

### Further reading

* “fisc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Old Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Noun

fisc m
* fish

#### Alternative forms

* visc

#### Descendants

* 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

#### Further reading

* “fisk”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* fix, ᚠᛁᛋᚳ (fisc) — Runic

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *péysks.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fiʃ/

### Noun

fisċ m (nominative plural fiscas)
* fish
** c. 994, Ælfric, On the Year
    Ǣlċe mōnað hēo yrnð under ān þǣra tacna. Ān þǣra tacna ys ġehāten aries, þæt is ramm; oðer taurus, þæt is fearr; ðridda gemini, þæt synd ġetwisan; fēorða cancer, þæt is crabba; fīfta leo; syxta virgo, þæt is mǣden; seofoða libra, þæt is pund orde wǣġe; eahtoðe scorpius, þæt is þrōwend; nigoða is sagittarius, þæt is sċytta; teoða ys capricornus, þæt is buccan horn, oððe bucca; endlyfta is aquarius, þæt is wæter-ġyte, oððe þe þe wæter ġyt; twelfte is pisces, þæt synd fixas.Each month runs under one of the signs [of the Zodiac]. The first of the signs is called aries, that is "ram"; the second is taurus, that is "bull"; the third is gemini, that is "twins"; the fourth is cancer, that is "crab"; the fifth is lion; the sixth is virgo, that is "virgin"; the seventh is libra, that is "pound" or "scales”; eighth is scorpious, that is "scorpion"; ninth is sagittarius, that is "shooter"; tenth is capricornus, that is "he-goat's horn" or "he-goat"; eleventh is aquarius, that is "pouring water" or "one that pours water"; twelfth is pisces, that is "fishes."

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

#### Derived terms

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

#### Descendants

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

#### See also

* angol (“fishhook”)

## Old Saxon
### Noun

fisc m
* Alternative form of fisk

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French fisc.

### Noun

fisc n (uncountable)
* (economics) fiscal administration