fascist

Significat

Adj

1. Of or relating to fascism.
2. Supporting the principles of fascism.
3. (informal) Unfairly oppressive or needlessly strict.

Noun

A proponent of fascism.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈfæʃɪst/

Etimologia

1921, from Italian fascista, from fascio (“bundle, bunch”), in use metonymically for "group of men organized for political purposes" since 1895. Ultimately with reference to the fasces or bundles of axes and rods carried before the magistrates of ancient Rome in token of their power of life and death.

Sents

This role was a broad parody of the fascist then-dictator of Italy , Benito Mussolini .