fiscal

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪskəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪskəl
• Hyphenation: fis‧cal

From Middle French fiscal, from Latin fiscus (“treasury”) – see fiscus and fisc.

fiscal (comparative more fiscal, superlative most fiscal)

1. Related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue.

   fiscal matters

   fiscal lawyer

   fiscal system

2. (proscribed) Pertaining to finance and money in general; financial.
3. Being a fiscal year.
   • 1990 August 31, John Zeh, “NEA Session Disrupted”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 7, page 3:

     The allotment is $22 million less than the Pentagon spent on military bands in fiscal 1990.

fiscal (plural fiscals)

1. A public official in certain countries having control of public revenue.
   • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 149:

     ‘There I was interrogated by the Fiscal, who was making out a proces verbal […] .’

2. (Scots law) Procurator fiscal, a public prosecutor.
3. (law) In certain countries, including Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and former colonies of these countries and certain British colonies, solicitor or attorney general.

• fisc

• finance, financial

From Spanish fiscal, ultimately from Latin fiscus (“treasury”).

fiscal (plural fiscals)

1. (Philippines, law) A public prosecutor (UK) or a district attorney (US).

After Afrikaans fiskaal (“public official, hangman”).

fiscal (plural fiscals)

1. Any of various African shrikes of the genus Lanius.

• grey-backed fiscal

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• califs, cifals

Borrowed from Latin fiscālis.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [fisˈkal]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

fiscal m or f (masculine and feminine plural fiscals)

1. fiscal, tax

fiscal m or f by sense (plural fiscals)

1. (law) public prosecutor (UK), district attorney (US)

• fiscalia
• fiscalitat
• fiscalitzar

• “fiscal”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “fiscal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “fiscal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “fiscal”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Borrowed from Latin fiscālis.

• IPA^(key): /fis.kal/

fiscal (feminine fiscale, masculine plural fiscaux, feminine plural fiscales)

1. fiscal, financial

• abri fiscal
• année fiscale
• évasion fiscale
• fraude fiscale
• paradis fiscal

• fiscalité

• “fiscal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• lascif

Borrowed from Latin fiscālis.

• Audio (Portugal (Alentejo)):

  (file)

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: fis‧cal

fiscal m or f (plural fiscais)

1. fiscal (relating to taxes)

   Synonym: tributário

• fiscalizar
• fiscalização
• fiscalmente

fiscal m or f by sense (plural fiscais)

1. fiscal, inspector

• fisco

• → Konkani: फीस्काल (phīskāl)

• “fiscal”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “fiscal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French fiscal. By surface analysis, fisc +‎ -al.

fiscal m or n (feminine singular fiscală, masculine plural fiscali, feminine/neuter plural fiscale)

1. fiscal

From Latin fiscālis.

• IPA^(key): /fisˈkal/ [fisˈkal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: fis‧cal

fiscal m or f (masculine and feminine plural fiscales)

1. fiscal
2. prosecuting

fiscal m (plural fiscales, feminine fiscal or fiscala, feminine plural fiscales or fiscalas)

1. (law) public prosecutor (UK), district attorney (US)
   • 2015 September 15, “Anticorrupción pide la imputación del exministro Pimentel en los ERE”, in El País‎^[1]:

     En el escrito elevado a la titular del Juzgado de Instrucción 6 de Sevilla, los fiscales piden la imputación de Pimentel y otras 24 personas —algunas ya imputadas en la causa— no solo por la ayuda a Taller de Libros sino también por el pago de las prejubilaciones de 10 trabajadores de la empresa cordobesa.

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• “fiscal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025