taxer

• taxor

From tax +‎ -er.

taxer (plural taxers)

1. One who taxes.
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3. (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/

• Audio:

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taxer

1. to tax, to impose a tax on
2. (transitive) to accuse [with direct object ‘someone’ and de ‘of something’]

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

3. (transitive, derogatory, proscribed) to call, to label [with direct object ‘someone’ and de (+ object or adjective) ‘as 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. 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. Compare Italian tacere.

taxer

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

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