taxa

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

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taxa

1. plural of taxon
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:

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

From Latin taxāre (“to appraise”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtak.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈtak.sa]

taxa f (plural taxes)

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

   taxa de mortalitat ― mortality rate

2. tax

• taxar

• “taxa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “taxa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “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.

taxa

1. father

taxa f

1. charge, rate (fixed amount of money paid for given extent of service)

Shortening of Taxamotorkompagniet, equivalent to taxameter + kompagnie, from Medieval Latin taxa.

• IPA^(key): /taksa/, [ˈtˢɑɡ̊sa]

taxa c (singular definite taxaen, plural indefinite taxaer)

1. cab, taxi

• hyrevogn
• taxi

• Greenlandic: taxa

• taxa on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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taxa

1. third-person singular past historic of taxer

• axât

From Old Galician-Portuguese taixa (14th century), from taixar (“to tax; to charge a fee”), from Latin taxāre (“to handle; to compute”), from tangō (“I touch”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaʃa̝/

taxa f (plural taxas)

1. fee (monetary payment)

   Synonyms: prezo, tarifa

2. (taxation) tax (money paid to the government)

   Synonyms: imposto, tributo

   • 1368, E. Cal Pardo, editor, 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

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

• taxación
• taxador
• taxar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “taxa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “taixa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “taxa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “taxa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Borrowed from Danish taxa.

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /taksa/, [tək.sa]

taxa (plural taxat)

1. taxi

taxā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of taxō

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• taxa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Rhymes: -aʃɐ
• Homophone: tacha
• Hyphenation: ta‧xa

From taxar (“to tax; to charge a fee”), from Latin taxāre (“to handle; to compute”), from tangō (“to touch”).

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

• taxa de câmbio
• taxa de risco

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

taxa

1. inflection of taxar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from French taxer, from Latin taxare.

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

1. to tax