vectigalis

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.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯ek.tiːˈɡaː.lis/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vek.tiˈɡa.lis/,

vectīgālis (neuter vectīgāle, comparative vectīgālior); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (relational) tax
2. subject to tax, taxable

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• vectīgal

vectīgālis n

1. genitive singular of vectīgal (“tax, tribute”)

• “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, 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
    
• 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