英语词汇confiscate的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	confiscate
词源	confiscate [M16th] The original meaning of confiscate was ‘to take someone’s property for the public treasury as a punishment’. It comes from Latin confiscare ‘to store in a chest’ or ‘to take something for the public treasury’, based on con- ‘together’ and fiscus ‘chest or treasury’, also the root of fiscal [M16th].
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