fascis, is, m., a bundle; pl., the fasces, a bundle of rods carried by the lictors before various magistrates. Outside of Rome an axe was bound with the rods. The rods and axe were typical of the magistrate’s power to punish, even to the extent of inflicting the death penalty. See [līctor].
fāstī, ōrum [fāstus], pl. m., a register, esp. of business days, also of officers, triumphs, etc.; the calendar.
[fāstus] [fās, right], adj., not forbidden, legal; diēs fāstus, a day on which it was legal to hold court, a business day.
fātālis, e [fātum, fate], adj., fateful, fatal.
[fateor, ērī, fassus sum], to confess.
con—cōnfiteor, ērī, fessus sum, to confess freely, acknowledge, avow.
prō—profiteor, ērī, fessus sum, to declare publicly, avow; nōmen profitērī, to avow one’s self a candidate.
faucēs, ium, pl. f., throat.
Faustulus, ī, m., the shepherd who brought up Romulus and Remus.
Faustus, ī [faveō], m., the Lucky, a name given by Sulla to his son.