different between tax vs gabelle

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

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5. (obsolete) A lesson to be learned.

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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

English

Etymology

From French gabelle.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?a?b?l/

Noun

gabelle (plural gabelles)

1. A tax; especially, the tax on salt levied in pre-Revolutionary France.
   • 1998, William Caferro, Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena, p. 150:

     The proceeds of the gabelle on retail wine were pledged directly to repayment of the forced loans imposed during Baumgarten and Sterz's raid in 1364.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 143:

     Salt, for example, was a state monopoly, and the tax on it – the much-detested gabelle – was levied at six different levels in the various regions […]

Anagrams

• gelable, legable

French

Etymology

From Italian gabella, from Arabic ????????? (qab?la, “bail, guaranty”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.b?l/

Noun

gabelle f (plural gabelles)

1. (historical) gabelle, salt tax

Further reading

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

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lle

Noun

gabelle f

1. plural of gabella