taxer

• taxor

tax +‎ -er

taxer (plural taxers)

1. One who taxes.
2. (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.

• Artex, extra, extra-, retax

Inherited from Old French taxer, borrowed from Latin taxāre. Replaced the older tausser. Cf. also taux.

• IPA^(key): /tak.se/

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taxer

1. to tax, to impose a tax on
2. (ditransitive, with the indirect object taking de) to accuse someone of something

   taxer quelqu’un de malhonnêteté ― to accuse someone of dishonesty

3. (proscribed, ditransitive, with the indirect object taking de) to call someone something

   Synonyms: traiter, qualifier

   On m’a taxé de menteur. ― I was called a liar.

• surtaxer
• taxation

• taxe
• taux

• “taxer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

taxer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of taxō

• tauxer

Borrowed from Latin taxāre, present active infinitive of taxō. Cf. also the older form tauxer (whence French taux), tausser, which was replaced.

taxer

1. to tax, to impose a tax on

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.

• French: taxer
• → Middle English: taxen
  • English: tax
  • Scots: tax
• → Dutch: taxeren
  • Afrikaans: takseer

From Latin tacēre, present active infinitive of taceō. Compare Italian tacere.

taxer

1. (intransitive) to shut up (be quiet)

• Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.