vectigalis
Latin
Etymology
From *vectīgum + -ālis, from Proto-Indo-European *wektih₂ǵom (“fee for vehicle-driving”), synchronically analyzable as vectis + agō + um. When this noun was compounded, vectis had a different meaning than it has in classical Latin.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wɛk.tiːˈɡaː.lɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [vek.t̪iˈɡaː.lis]
Adjective
vectīgālis (neuter vectīgāle, comparative vectīgālior); third-declension two-termination adjective
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | vectīgālis | vectīgāle | vectīgālēs | vectīgālia | |
| genitive | vectīgālis | vectīgālium | |||
| dative | vectīgālī | vectīgālibus | |||
| accusative | vectīgālem | vectīgāle | vectīgālēs vectīgālīs |
vectīgālia | |
| ablative | vectīgālī | vectīgālibus | |||
| vocative | vectīgālis | vectīgāle | vectīgālēs | vectīgālia | |
Derived terms
Noun
vectīgālis n
- genitive singular of vectīgal (“tax, tribute”)
References
- “vectigalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vectigalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vectigalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to farm the revenues: vectigalia redimere, conducere
- to collect the taxes: vectigalia exercere (vid. sect. V. 7, note The first...)
- to exact the taxes (with severity): vectigalia exigere (acerbe)
- to pay taxes: vectigalia, tributa pendere
- to impose tribute on some one: vectigalia, tributa alicui imponere
- to farm the revenues: vectigalia redimere, conducere
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vehō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 658