taxer
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editNoun
edittaxer (plural taxers)
- One who taxes.
- (UK, Cambridge University, historical) One of two officers chosen yearly to regulate the assize of bread, and to see the true gauge of weights and measures is observed.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “taxer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French taxer, borrowed from Latin taxāre. Replaced the older tausser. Cf. also taux.
Pronunciation
editVerb
edittaxer
- to tax, to impose a tax on
- (transitive) to accuse [with direct object ‘someone’ and de ‘of something’]
- taxer quelqu’un de malhonnêteté ― to accuse someone of dishonesty
- (transitive, derogatory, proscribed) to call, to label [with direct object ‘someone’ and de (+ object or adjective) ‘as something’]
Conjugation
editinfinitive | simple | taxer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | taxant /tak.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | taxé /tak.se/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | taxe /taks/ |
taxes /taks/ |
taxe /taks/ |
taxons /tak.sɔ̃/ |
taxez /tak.se/ |
taxent /taks/ |
imperfect | taxais /tak.sɛ/ |
taxais /tak.sɛ/ |
taxait /tak.sɛ/ |
taxions /tak.sjɔ̃/ |
taxiez /tak.sje/ |
taxaient /tak.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | taxai /tak.se/ |
taxas /tak.sa/ |
taxa /tak.sa/ |
taxâmes /tak.sam/ |
taxâtes /tak.sat/ |
taxèrent /tak.sɛʁ/ | |
future | taxerai /tak.sə.ʁe/ |
taxeras /tak.sə.ʁa/ |
taxera /tak.sə.ʁa/ |
taxerons /tak.sə.ʁɔ̃/ |
taxerez /tak.sə.ʁe/ |
taxeront /tak.sə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | taxerais /tak.sə.ʁɛ/ |
taxerais /tak.sə.ʁɛ/ |
taxerait /tak.sə.ʁɛ/ |
taxerions /tak.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
taxeriez /tak.sə.ʁje/ |
taxeraient /tak.sə.ʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | taxe /taks/ |
taxes /taks/ |
taxe /taks/ |
taxions /tak.sjɔ̃/ |
taxiez /tak.sje/ |
taxent /taks/ |
imperfect2 | taxasse /tak.sas/ |
taxasses /tak.sas/ |
taxât /tak.sa/ |
taxassions /tak.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
taxassiez /tak.sa.sje/ |
taxassent /tak.sas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | taxe /taks/ |
— | taxons /tak.sɔ̃/ |
taxez /tak.se/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “taxer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
editVerb
edittaxer
Old French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin taxāre, present active infinitive of taxō. Cf. also the older form tauxer (whence French taux), tausser, which was replaced.
Verb
edittaxer
- to tax, to impose a tax on
Conjugation
editThis verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. In the present tense an extra supporting e is needed in the first-person singular indicative and throughout the singular subjunctive, and the third-person singular subjunctive ending -t is lost. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | taxer | avoir taxé | |||||
gerund | en taxant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
present participle | taxant | ||||||
past participle | taxé | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses |
present | taxe | taxes | taxe | taxons | taxez | taxent |
imperfect | taxoie, taxeie, taxoe, taxeve | taxoies, taxeies, taxoes, taxeves | taxoit, taxeit, taxot, taxeve | taxiiens, taxiens | taxiiez, taxiez | taxoient, taxeient, taxoent, taxevent | |
preterite | taxai | taxas | taxa | taxames | taxastes | taxerent | |
future | taxerai | taxeras | taxera | taxerons | taxeroiz, taxereiz, taxerez | taxeront | |
conditional | taxeroie, taxereie | taxeroies, taxereies | taxeroit, taxereit | taxeriiens, taxeriens | taxeriiez, taxeriez | taxeroient, taxereient | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
simple tenses |
present | taxe | taxes | taxe | taxons | taxez | taxent |
imperfect | taxasse | taxasses | taxast | taxissons, taxissiens | taxissoiz, taxissez, taxissiez | taxassent | |
compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | taxe | — | taxons | taxez | — |
Descendants
editVenetian
editEtymology
editFrom Latin tacēre, present active infinitive of taceō. Compare Italian tacere.
Verb
edittaxer
- (intransitive) to shut up (be quiet)
Conjugation
edit- Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
infinitive | taxer | |||||
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auxiliary verb | aver | gerund | taxéndo | |||
past participle | taxato | |||||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | mi | ti | eło / eła | noialtri / noialtre | voialtri / voialtre | łuri / łore |
present | taxo | (te) taxi | (el/ła) taxe | taxémo | taxì | (i/łe) taxe |
imperfect | taxéa | (te) taxivi | (el/ła) taxéa | taxévimo | taxivi | (i/łe) taxéa |
future | taxarò | (te) taxarè | (el/ła) taxarà | taxarémo | taxarè | (i/łe) taxarà |
conditional | mi | ti | eło / eła | noialtri / noialtre | voialtri / voialtre | łuri / łore |
present | taxarìa | (te) taxarisi | (el/ła) taxarìa | taxarìsimo | taxarisi | (i/łe) taxarìa |
subjunctive | che mi | che ti | che eło / eła | che noialtri / noialtre | che voialtri / voialtre | che łuri / łore |
present | taxa | (te) taxi | (el/ła) taxa | taxémo | taxì | (i/łe) taxa |
imperfect | taxése | (te) taxisi | (el/ła) taxése | taxésimo | taxisi | (i/łe) taxése |
imperative | — | ti | eło / eła | noialtri / noialtre | voialtri / voialtre | łuri / łore |
— | (te) taxi | (el/ła) taxa | taxémo | taxì | (i/łe) taxa |
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