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tax
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)
- 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
- (figuratively, uncountable) A burdensome demand.
- A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
- (obsolete) charge; censure
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Clarendon to this entry?)
- (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)
- (transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
- (transitive) To impose and collect a tax on (something).
- (transitive) To make excessive demands on.
- (transitive) To accuse.
- (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
- 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 ????)
- district, neighborhood, quarter
- 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
- a dachshund (dog breed)
Declension
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plague
English
Etymology
From Middle English plage, borrowed from Old French plage, from Latin pl?ga (“blow, wound”), from plang? (“to strike”). Cognate with Middle Dutch pl?ghe (> Dutch plaag), pl?ghen (> Dutch plagen); Middle Low German pl?ge; Middle High German pl?ge, pfl?ge (> German Plage); pl?gen (> German plagen); Swedish plåga; French plaie, Occitan plaga. Doublet of plaga. Displaced native Old English w?l.
Pronunciation
- enPR: pl?g, IPA(key): /ple??/, [p?l?e??]
- Rhymes: -e??
Noun
plague (countable and uncountable, plural plagues)
- (often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
- (pathology) An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease.
- A widespread affliction, calamity or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution.
- (figuratively) A grave nuisance, whatever greatly irritates.
- Collective noun for common grackles
Synonyms
- pest, pestilence
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
plague (third-person singular simple present plagues, present participle plaguing, simple past and past participle plagued)
- (transitive) To harass, pester or annoy someone persistently or incessantly.
- (transitive) To afflict with a disease or other calamity.
Derived terms
- plagued
- plaguer
Translations
Spanish
Verb
plague
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of plagar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of plagar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of plagar.
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