Where does “fiscal” come from?

Fiscal comes from Middle French fiscal, derived from Latin fiscus, originally meaning a basket or treasury used for collecting state revenue.

fiscal (English): Related to the treasury of a country, company,...

Definitions

  1. Related to the treasury of a country, company,...

Ancestry of “fiscal”, step by step

fiscal traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle French fiscal

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchfiscal—
2Latinfiscusbasket; purse; treasury, public money

via Spanish fiscal

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishfiscalfiscal

Words derived from “fiscal”

Every word from Latin fiscus →Every word from Middle French fiscal →