fisc
noun/fɪsk/
Etymology Partly from Middle French fisc and partly from its etymon, Latin fiscus (“basket, money-bag, public treasury”); see fiscal.
1
Ancient Rome The public treasury of Rome.
2
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 […].1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, page 340:
- He did not mention that Trump is about as popular with the British public as drug-resistant syphilis and that it would be political suicide to bribe him with cash out of the public fisc.2026 February 3, “The End of Free Speech” (10:39 from the start), in LegalEagle, spoken by Liz Dye, retrieved 03 Feb 2026:
- Related terms
- confiscate, confiscation, fiscal