fiscus
noun
fiscus is a noun meaning “A government treasury” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-S-C-U-S and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 31 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fiscus is fisci.
What does fiscus mean?
noun
- 1
A government treasury.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fiscus?
Fiscus has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fiscus
- fisci plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fiscus?
Fiscus appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fiscus come from?
Borrowed from Latin fiscus (“treasury”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).