fasces
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6 characters
Language
Spanish
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fasces is aSpanishnoun. It means: Manojo de varillas, ligado a una hachuela o segur, empleado como insignia del consulado romano y portado por los lictores. Se ha usado en heráldica como un símbolo republicano o de la administració... Pronounced [ˈfases].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fasces |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfases] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for fasces is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfases]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Manojo de varillas, ligado a una hachuela o segur, empleado como insignia del consulado romano y portado por los lictores. Se ha usado en heráldica como un símbolo republicano o de la administració...".
No misspelling variants are generated for fasces in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is fasces, spelled F-A-S-C-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Manojo de varillas, ligado a una hachuela o segur, empleado como insignia del consulado romano y portado por los lictores. Se ha usado en heráldica como un símbolo republicano o de la administración de justicia, y luego en el siglo xx, fue adoptado como emblema por el fascismo.
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