Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/14

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Subject: [Leica] Etymologies
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 19:25:07 -0400

At 04:07 PM 4/14/99 -0700, Joseph Codispoti wrote:
>The word fascism comes for "fascio" which means fagot in Italian. Now,
>before jumping to fascism, please check fagot in the dictionary.

Well, a quick gander through any standard Latin dictionary would expand
Signore Codispoti's knowledge a bit.  "Fascism" comes from the Latin
"fascis", which means a fagot and more -- the axe-blade came extra ...

Marc

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