tax
English
/tæks/
noun
Definitions
- Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.
- (figurative) 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
- (obsolete) A lesson to be learned.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English taxe derived from tax derived from Old French taxe derived from Latin taxa.
Origin
Latin
taxa
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- after-tax English
- antitax English
- antitaxation English
- bite English
- detax English
- detaxation English
- ecotax English
- ecotaxation English
- fortax English
- gatherer English
- gathering English
- hypertax English
- hypertaxation English
- iPod English
- iPod tax English
- income English
- income tax English
- man English
- nontax English
- nontaxability English
- nontaxable English
- nontaxation English
- nontaxpayer English
- nontaxpaying English
- overtax English
- overtaxation English
- paid English
- payer English
- paying English
- payment English
- posttax English
- pretax English
- pretaxation English
- retax English
- retaxation English
- subtax English
- supertax English
- tax-free English
- taxability English
- taxable English
- taxableness English
- taxably English
- taxaholic English
- taxation English
- taxational English
- taxbite English
- taxee English
- taxer English
- taxest English
- taxeth English
- taxgatherer English
- taxgathering English
- taxless English
- taxlessness English
- taxlike English
- taxman English
- taxocrat English
- taxor English
- taxpaid English
- taxpayer English
- taxpaying English
- taxpayment English
- taxwise English
- taxwoman English
- undertax English
- untax English
- untaxable English
- woman English
- lääketaksa Finnish
- taksa Finnish
- taksamerkki Finnish
- taksamittari Finnish
- taksanmukainen Finnish
- taksoittaa Finnish
- verohintataksa Finnish
- tasca Latin
- taxa Latin
- taxare Latin
- Taxameter German
- Taxe German
- taksa Hungarian
- tassa Italian
- τάξις Ancient Greek
- *tag- Proto-Indo-European
- takst Norwegian Bokmål
- taxa Swedish
- タックス Japanese
- takst Norwegian Nynorsk
- fortaxen Middle English
- taxe Middle English
- taxe Old French
- टैक्स Hindi
- taxe Middle Dutch
- taksë Albanian
- tax Middle Low German
- តាក់ Central Khmer
- takis Tok Pisin
- tax xno
- takisi Rotokas
- man
- iPod
- paid
- bite
- taxer
- taxee
- untax
- woman
- detax
- payer
- taxor
- retax
- nontax
- pretax
- subtax
- ecotax
- fortax
- taxest
- taxeth
- income
- taxman
- paying
- taxpaid
- taxlike
- overtax
- taxably
- posttax
- taxless
- payment
- antitax
- taxbite
- taxwise
- taxable
- taxwoman
- hypertax
- tax-free
- iPod tax
- taxocrat
- taxation
- gatherer
- taxpayer
- supertax
- undertax
- untaxable
- taxpaying
- gathering
- after-tax
- taxaholic
- nontaxable
- retaxation
- taxational
- taxpayment
- detaxation
- taxability
- income tax
- nontaxation
- ecotaxation
- nontaxpayer
- pretaxation
- taxgatherer
- taxableness
- taxlessness
- nontaxpaying
- overtaxation
- antitaxation
- taxgathering
- hypertaxation
- nontaxability