English

fascistoid

From fascist + -oid.

Formed from fascist + -oid

Latin fascis ‘a faggot, fascine’

Italian fascio ‘bundle, bunch’

Italian fascista

first attested First attested in an article by Geoffrey Pyke in The New Statesman on 5 September 1936 (as stated in the etymology)

The story

First attested in an article by Geoffrey Pyke in The New Statesman on 5 September 1936.

adj Resembling fascism.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / fascistoid