different between pester vs tax

English

Etymology

In the senses of “overcrowd (a place)” and “impede (a person)”: from Middle French and Old French empestrer (“encumber”), influenced by English pest. The modern sense is an extension of the sense “infest”. Comparable to English construction pest + -er (used to form frequentative verbs).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?st?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?st?/, [?p??st?]
• Rhymes: -?st?(?)

Verb

pester (third-person singular simple present pesters, present participle pestering, simple past and past participle pestered)

1. (transitive) To bother, harass, or annoy persistently.
2. (obsolete, transitive and intransitive) To crowd together thickly.

Synonyms

• badger
• bug
• hound

Derived terms

• bepester
• pester power
• pesterer
• pestery

Related terms

• pest

Translations

Noun

pester (plural pesters)

1. A bother or nuisance.

Anagrams

• Peters, Pretes, pestre, peters, pre-set, preset, serpet

Dutch

Etymology

From pesten +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?s.t?r/
• Hyphenation: pes?ter

Noun

pester m (plural pesters, diminutive pestertje n)

1. A person who bullies or pesters somebody.

Related terms

• pesten, pesterij

Synonyms

• pestkop

Anagrams

• perste, preest, preste, streep

French

Etymology

From peste +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?s.te/

Verb

pester

1. to rant, curse, fulminate

Conjugation

Further reading

• “pester” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• pertes, prêtes, prêtés

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

pester m or f

1. indefinite plural of pest

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• pestar

Noun

pester m or f

1. indefinite feminine plural of pest

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *p?str? (“variegated”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pè?st?r/

Adjective

p??st?r (comparative p??strejši, superlative n?jp??strejši)

1. colourful, variegated

Inflection

Further reading

• “pester”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English taxe, from Anglo-Norman tax and Old French taxe, from Medieval Latin taxa.

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. (figuratively, 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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Clarendon to this entry?)

5. (obsolete) A lesson to be learned.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: takis
  • ? Rotokas: takisi

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English taxen, from Anglo-Norman taxer (“to impose a tax”), from Latin tax?re, present active infinitive of tax? (“I handle”, “I censure”, “I appraise”, “I 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).

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

Derived terms

• taxable
• taxation

Translations

Anagrams

• ATX, 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

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??x/

Noun

tax f (Arabic spelling ????)

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

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “tax”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Homophone: tacks

Noun

tax c

1. a dachshund (dog breed)

Declension