taxo

Frequentative of tangō (“I touch”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtak.soː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtak.so/,

taxō (present infinitive taxāre, perfect active taxāvī, supine taxātum); first conjugation

1. to feel, to touch sharply, to handle
2. to charge, to twit, to reproach, to censure
3. to rate, to appraise, to value, to estimate
4. to judge, to compute, to reckon, to estimate

• (I touch): tangō, tractō
• (I value): aestimō

• dumtaxat
• taxātiō

From Frankish *þahs, from Proto-Germanic *þahsuz (“badger”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- (“construct”) after the badger's construction of its setts (compare texō).

• taxus

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtak.soː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtak.so/,

taxō m (genitive taxonis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) badger

Third-declension noun.

See also descendants at taxus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtaːk.soː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtak.so/,

tāxō

1. (Old Latin) first-person singular sigmatic future active indicative of tangō

See explanation at tangō.

• “taxo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• taxo 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)
• taxo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Rhymes: -aʃu
• Homophone: tacho
• Hyphenation: ta‧xo

taxo

1. first-person singular present indicative of taxar