impost
See also: impôt
English
editPronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɪmpəʊst/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɪmpoʊst/
- Rhymes: -əʊst
Etymology 1
editBorrowed from Middle French impost, itself borrowed or adapted from Latin impōsitus, past participle of impōnō (“I impose”).
Noun
editimpost (plural imposts)
- (chiefly historical) A tax, tariff or duty that is imposed, especially on merchandise.
- 1667 (revival performance), John Dryden, “Epilogue to the Wild Gallant, as It vvas First Acted”, in The Wild Gallant: A Comedy. […], In the Savoy [London]: […] T[homas] Newcomb for H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1669:
- ’Tis a Land-tax, vvhich he’s too poor to pay; / You, therefore muſt ſome other Impoſt lay.
- 1752, David Hume, Political Discourses, Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, “Of Taxes,” p. 120,[2]
- […] a duty upon commodities checks itself; and a prince will soon find, that an encrease of the impost is no encrease of his revenue.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, chapter 24, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book II (The Golden Thread), page 162:
- […] before the sequestration of emigrant property, I had remitted the imposts they had ceased to pay;
- 1941, Melville J. Herskovits, chapter 3, in The Myth of the Negro Past, New York: Harper, page 68:
- The Ashanti traded with the tribes to the north and with coastal folk to the south, and caravans going in either direction were liable for imposts according to the nature of the goods they carried.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 56:
- New universal direct taxes had to be introduced […] , while the burden of indirect taxes was also made heavier, with new imposts being levied on an ensemble of items ranging from playing cards to wigs.
- (horse racing, slang) The weight that must be carried by a horse in a race, the handicap.
Translations
edittax
See also
editEtymology 2
editFrom Italian imposta, from Latin imposta.
Noun
editimpost (plural imposts)
- (architecture) The top part of a column, pillar, pier, wall, etc. that supports an arch.
- 1798, William Gilpin, Observations on the Western Parts of England[3], London: T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, Section 7, p. 79:
- The outer circle [of Stonehenge] has been formed by a combination of two uprights and an impost; yet each combination of these three stones is detached, and without any connection with the rest, except that of coinciding in the form of a circle.
Catalan
editEtymology
editFirst attested in 1905. Borrowed either from French impôt,[1] or directly from Latin impositus.[2]
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editimpost m (plural imposts or impostos)
References
edit- ^ http://www.diccionari.cat/lexicx.jsp?GECART=0075573
- ^ “impost” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Maltese
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian imposto.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editPolish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian imposta.[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editimpost m inan
- (architecture) impost, impost block (projecting block resting on top of a column or embedded in a wall, serving as the base for the springer or lowest voussoir of an arch)
- Synonym: nasadnik
- Hyponym: dzbanuszek
Declension
editDeclension of impost
References
edit- ^ “impost”, in Słownik wyrazów obcych[1] (in Polish), Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 1995, archived from the original on 4 March 2016
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