fasce
French
Etymology
Borrowed (in this form) from Latin fascia. The Old French form faisse, fece, which underwent "re-Latinized" spelling in modern French, was popularly inherited.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fas/
- Homophones: face, fasse, fassent, fasses
Noun
fasce f (plural fasces)
- (heraldry) fess
Related terms
- faix
Further reading
- “fasce”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfaʃ.ʃe/
- Rhymes: -aʃʃe
- Hyphenation: fà‧sce
Noun
fasce f
- plural of fascia
Noun
fasce f pl (plural only)
- swaddling clothes
- (military, historical) puttees (strips of wool wrapped around the lower leg, from foot to knee)
Anagrams
- scafe
Latin
Noun
fasce
- ablative singular of fascis