taxer
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
taxer (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French taxer, borrowed from Latin taxāre. Replaced the older tausser. Cf. also taux.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
taxer
- to tax, to impose a tax on
- (ditransitive, with the indirect object taking de) to accuse someone of something
- taxer quelqu’un de malhonnêteté ― to accuse someone of dishonesty
- (proscribed, ditransitive, with the indirect object taking de) to call someone something
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of taxer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | taxer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “taxer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Verb edit
taxer
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin taxāre, present active infinitive of taxō. Cf. also the older form tauxer (whence French taux), tausser, which was replaced.
Verb edit
taxer
- to tax, to impose a tax on
Conjugation edit
This 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.
Conjugation of taxer (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 edit
Venetian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin tacēre, present active infinitive of taceō. Compare Italian tacere.
Verb edit
taxer
- (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.
Conjugation of taxer (second conjugation)
| infinitive | taxer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |