See also: taxă

English

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Etymology

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The plural form of taxon, formed according to the Ancient Greek -ον (-on) (-a) pluralisation pattern.

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taxa

  1. plural of taxon
    • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:
      Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.

Catalan

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From Latin taxāre (to appraise).

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taxa f (plural taxes)

  1. rate (the proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another)
    taxa de mortalitatmortality rate
  2. tax
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taxa

  1. father

Czech

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taxa f

  1. charge, rate (fixed amount of money paid for given extent of service)

Danish

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Shortening of Taxamotorkompagniet, equivalent to taxameter + kompagnie, from Medieval Latin taxa.

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  • IPA(key): /taksa/, [ˈtˢɑɡ̊sa]

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taxa c (singular definite taxaen, plural indefinite taxaer)

  1. cab, taxi

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  • Greenlandic: taxa

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French

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taxa

  1. third-person singular past historic of taxer

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Galician

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese taixa (14th century), from taixar (to tax; to charge a fee), from Latin taxāre, present active infinitive of taxō (I handle; I compute), from tangō (I touch).

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taxa f (plural taxas)

  1. fee (monetary payment)
    Synonyms: prezo, tarifa
  2. (taxation) tax (money paid to the government)
    Synonyms: imposto, tributo
    • 1368, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Monasterio de San Salvador de Pedroso en tierras de Trasancos, A Coruña: Deputación Provincial, page 259:
      prometo, commo leal vasallo, deles fazer pagar as ditas taixas et pedidos et dézemos que devan
      I promise, as a loyal vassal, to make them pay the aforementioned taxes and allotments and tithes that they owe
  3. (economics) a percentage or ratio of a value
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Greenlandic

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Borrowed from Danish taxa.

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taxa (plural taxat)

  1. taxi

Latin

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taxā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of taxō

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  • taxa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • taxa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • taxa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Etymology 1

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From taxar (to tax; to charge a fee), from Latin taxāre (to handle; to compute), from tangō (to touch).

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taxa f (plural taxas)

  1. fee (monetary payment charged for professional services)
    Synonyms: pauta, tarifa
  2. tax (money paid to the government)
    Synonyms: imposto, tributo
  3. (mathematics, statistics) rate (amount measured in relation to another amount)
    Synonym: índice
  4. (economics) a percentage or ratio of a value
    Synonyms: percentagem, razão
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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taxa

  1. inflection of taxar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French taxer, from Latin taxare.

Verb

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a taxa (third-person singular present taxează, past participle taxat) 1st conj.

  1. to tax

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