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