Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> >>The word fascism comes for "fascio" which means fagot in Italian. > >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 > You are quite correct Marc. The bundled ax and twigs indeed date back to the > Roman Empire. However, "fascismo" is a 20th century term thus my translation > from Italian rather than Latin. > The english slang term for male homosexuals comes from the middle english for a bundle of sticks and is a reference to the practice of burning homesexuals at the stake during the middle ages. Fascism comes from the Italian word for stick, and is a reference to the fact that a single stick can be easily broken, but that a bundle of sticks held together cannot be easily be broken.