fascio

Borrowed from Italian fascio.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfæʃoʊ/

fascio (plural fascios or fasci)

1. A bundle or sheaf.
   • 1913, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, page 38:

     The surfaces contain two fasci of curves — first, a fascio of elliptic curves, trajectories of the group, not necessarily a linear fascio; second, an elliptic fascio of curves of any genus; […]

2. (now historical) An organised Italian political group, typically one resisting state government and advocating radical change; (specifically) any of a number of groups formed around the period of the First World War.
   • 2011, David Gilmour, The Pursuit of Italy, Penguin, published 2012, page 250:

     Crispi, who became prime minister for the second time at the end of 1893, saw the fasci as promoters of revolution.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaʃ.ʃo/^[1]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aʃʃo
• Hyphenation: fà‧scio

Inherited from Latin fascis (with a change in declension).

fascio m (plural fasci)

1. bundle (of wood)
2. (by extension) a group or association
3. sheaf (of hay)
4. bunch (of flowers)
5. beam (of light)
6. fasces (usually in the plural)
7. fascism
8. (slang) a fascist
9. (mathematics) sheaf
10. (anatomy) fasciculus, bundle

• fascione
• fascismo
• fascista

• affasciare
• fascia
• fasciare
• fascio littorio

• → English: fascio
• → Slavomolisano: faš

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fascio

1. first-person singular present indicative of fasciare

• cafiso, fiasco, sfocai, sfocia

Post-Classical. From fascia +‎ -ō.

fasciō (present infinitive fasciāre, perfect active fasciāvī, supine fasciātum); first conjugation (Late Latin)

1. (rare) to envelop with bands, swathe

• “fascio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fascio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.