mid 16th century: from Latin confiscat- ‘put away in a chest, consigned to the public treasury’, from the verb confiscare, based on con- ‘together’ + fiscus ‘chest, treasury’
16世紀半ば:ラテン語のconfiscat-「胸にしまう、公庫に委託する」に由来し、con-「一緒に」+fiscus「胸、公庫」に基づく動詞confiscareが語源。