taxa

See also: taxă

English

Etymology

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

Noun

taxa

1. plural of taxon
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page viii:

     Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈtak.sə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtak.sa/

Noun

taxa f (plural taxes)

1. rate (the proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another)

   taxa de mortalitat ― mortality rate

2. tax

Further reading

• “taxa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “taxa” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “taxa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “taxa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Cuiba

Noun

taxa

1. father

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Danish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taksa/, [ˈtˢɑɡ̊sa]

Noun

taxa c (singular definite taxaen, plural indefinite taxaer)

1. cab, taxi

Inflection

Declension of taxa

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	taxa	taxaen	taxaer	taxaerne
genitive	taxas	taxaens	taxaers	taxaernes

Synonyms

• hyrevogn
• taxi

Descendants

• Greenlandic: taxa

Further reading

• taxa on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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French

Verb

taxa

1. third-person singular past historic of taxer

Anagrams

• axât

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician 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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaʃa̝/

Noun

taxa f (plural taxas)

1. fee (monetary payment)

   Synonyms: prezo, tarifa

2. (taxation) tax (money paid to the government)
   • 1368, E. Cal Pardo (ed.), 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

   Synonyms: imposto, tributo

3. (economics) a percentage or ratio of a value

Related terms

• taxación
• taxador
• taxar

References

• “taxa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “taixa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “taxa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “taxa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

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Greenlandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish taxa.

Noun

taxa (plural taxat)

1. taxi

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Latin

Verb

taxā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of taxō

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• taxa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Portuguese

Etymology

From taxar (“to tax; to charge a fee”), from Latin taxāre, present active infinitive of taxō (“I handle; I compute”), from tangō (“I touch”), from Proto-Indo-European *tag-, *taǵ- (“to touch”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ʃɐ/
• Homophone: tacha
• Hyphenation: ta‧xa

Noun

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

Derived terms

• taxa de câmbio
• taxa de risco

Related terms

• taxação
• taxadamente
• taxado
• taxador
• taxar
• taxativamente
• taxatividade
• taxativo
• taxável

 

Verb

taxa

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of taxar
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of taxar

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Romanian

Etymology

From French taxer, from Latin taxare.

Verb

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

1. to tax

Conjugation

    conjugation of taxa (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a taxa
gerund			taxând
past participle			taxat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	taxez	taxezi	taxează	taxăm	taxați	taxează
	imperfect	taxam	taxai	taxa	taxam	taxați	taxau
	simple perfect	taxai	taxași	taxă	taxarăm	taxarăți	taxară
	pluperfect	taxasem	taxaseși	taxase	taxaserăm	taxaserăți	taxaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să taxez	să taxezi	să taxeze	să taxăm	să taxați	să taxeze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		taxează			taxați
	negative		nu taxa			nu taxați