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fasces
Latin · ancient
"a bundle of rods, symbol of authority"
a bundle of rods carried before Roman magistrates as a symbol of authority
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fascio
Italian · 1800s
"a bundle; a political group"
literally 'bundle', applied to political associations and unions
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Stage 3 of 4
fascismo
Italian · 1919
"Mussolini's authoritarian political movement"
coined for Mussolini's authoritarian nationalist movement, consciously invoking Roman imagery
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fascism
English · 1920s
"a far-right authoritarian political ideology"
borrowed for the movement and, later, the broader ideology it named
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