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Yes. The word fascis is a Scrabble US word. The word fascis is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word fascis is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

F4A1S1C3I1S1

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6-letter words (1 found)

FASCIS,

5-letter words (3 found)

FASCI,FISCS,SAICS,

4-letter words (7 found)

ASCI,CAFS,FISC,SACS,SAIC,SAIS,SICS,

3-letter words (11 found)

AIS,ASS,CAF,CIS,FAS,IFS,SAC,SAI,SIC,SIF,SIS,

2-letter words (6 found)

AI,AS,FA,IF,IS,SI,

You can make 28 words from fascis according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of fascis

fascis

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle, band”), see also Proto-Celtic *baskis (“bundle, load”), Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos, “bundle”), Albanian bashkë (“together”), Old English bæst (“inner bark of the linden tree”), Welsh baich (“load, burden”), Middle Irish basc (“neckband”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfas.kis/, [ˈfäs̠kɪs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfaʃ.ʃis/, [ˈfäʃːis]

Noun

fascis m (genitive fascis); third declension

  1. A faggot, fascine; bundle, packet, package, parcel.
  2. A burden, load.
  3. (usually in the plural) A bundle carried by lictors before the highest magistrates, consisting of rods and an axe, with which criminals were scourged and beheaded.
  4. A high office, like the consulship.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Synonyms

  • (bundle): sarcina
  • (fascine): crātis
  • (burden, load): sarcina

Derived terms

Related terms

  • fascia

Descendants

See also

  • fascia

References

  • “fascis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fascis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fascis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

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