fiscal

the word 'fiscal' originates from the latin term 'fiscalis', which means 'of the treasury'. this, in turn, derives from 'fiscus', the latin word for a woven basket or purse used to hold money, which came to specifically denote the imperial treasury in ancient rome. the semantic evolution is direct: from a physical container for money, to the state's financial repository, and finally to the modern adjective describing anything pertaining to public revenue and finance. the journey encapsulates the abstraction of a concrete object into a domain of governmental economic policy.

Structure: fisc (treasury) + al (adjective suffix) fisc (from latin 'fiscus', meaning 'money basket', 'public treasury'); al (from latin adjectival suffix '-alis', meaning 'of or pertaining to')