fiscal

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪskəl/
• Rhymes: -ɪskəl

From Middle French fiscal, from Latin fiscus (“treasury”) – see fiscus and fisc.

fiscal (comparative more fiscal, superlative most fiscal)

1. Related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue.
2. (proscribed) Pertaining to finance and money in general; financial.

• Not to be confused with financial, which refers to money generally, particularly lending and banking, rather than narrowly to a treasury.

• fiscalization
• fiscalize

fiscal (plural fiscals)

1. A public official in certain countries having control of public revenue.
2. (Britain, Scotland, law) Procurator fiscal, a public prosecutor.
3. (law) In certain countries, including Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and former colonies of these countries and certain British colonies, solicitor or attorney general.

• fisc

• finance, financial

After Afrikaans fiskaal (“public official, hangman”)

fiscal (plural fiscals)

1. Any of various African shrikes of the genus Lanius.

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• Lanius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• califs, cifals

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /fisˈkal/

fiscal (masculine and feminine plural fiscals)

1. fiscal, tax

fiscal (feminine singular fiscale, masculine plural fiscaux, feminine plural fiscales)

1. fiscal, financial

• fiscalité

• “fiscal” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• lascif

From fisco (“national treasury”), from Latin fiscus (“treasury”)

fiscal (plural fiscais, comparable)

1. fiscal (relating to taxes)

• (relating to taxes): tributário

fiscal m, f (plural fiscais)

1. fiscal, inspector

• fiscalizar
• fiscalização

From fisco (“national treasury”), from Latin fiscus (“treasury”)

fiscal (plural fiscales)

1. fiscal
2. prosecuting

fiscal m or f (plural fiscales)

1. (law) prosecutor

• fiscalía