tax

English Online Dictionary. What means tax‎? What does tax mean?

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: tăks, IPA^(key): /tæks/
• Homophone: tacks
• Rhymes: -æks

Etymology 1

From Middle English taxe, from Middle French taxe, from Medieval Latin taxa, from Latin taxō (“to appraise, value, estimate; (medieval) to tax”). Doublet of task. Displaced native Old English gafol, which was also the word for “tribute” and “rent”.

Noun

tax (countable and uncountable, plural taxes)

1. Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.

   Synonyms: impost, tribute, contribution, duty, toll, rate, assessment, exaction, custom, demand, levy

   Antonym: subsidy
2. (figurative, uncountable) A burdensome demand.
3. A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
4. (obsolete) charge; censure

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Descendants

• → Tok Pisin: takis
  • → Rotokas: takisi
• → Hindi: टैक्स (ṭaiks)
• → Urdu: ٹَیکْس (ṭaiks)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English taxen, from Anglo-Norman taxer (“to impose a tax”), from Latin taxāre (“to handle, to censure, to appraise, to compute”).

Verb

tax (third-person singular simple present taxes, present participle taxing, simple past and past participle taxed)

1. (transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
2. (transitive) To impose and collect a tax on (something).

4. (transitive) To make excessive demands on.
5. (transitive) To accuse.
6. (transitive) To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.

Derived terms

• taxable
• taxation

Translations

Anagrams

• ATX, Axt, xat

Latin

Alternative forms

• tuxtax

Interjection

tax

1. an onomatopoeia expressing the sound of blows, whack, crack

References

• “tax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tax”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “tax”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

tax

1. alternative form of taxe

Etymology 2

Verb

tax

1. alternative form of taxen

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Borrowed from Armenian թաղ (tʻaġ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑːx/

Noun

tax f (Arabic spelling تاخ)

1. district, neighborhood, quarter
2. district, region

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973), “թաղ (1)”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 143b
• Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “tax”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[3], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 598
• Jaba, Auguste, Justi, Ferdinand (1879), “تاغ”, in Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 92b

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Homophone: tacks

Noun

tax c

1. a dachshund (dog breed)

Declension

Derived terms

• pansartax

References

• tax in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tax in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tax in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)