tax

tax
\ \ [13] Tax originally denoted ‘assess an amount to be levied’; the notion of ‘imposing such a levy’ is a secondary development. The word comes via Old French taxer from Latin taxāretouch, assess, appraise’, a derivative of tangeretouch’ (source of English contact, tangible, etc). From taxāre was derived the medieval Latin noun taxatax, piece of work imposed’, which passed into English via Anglo-Norman tasque as task [13].
\ \ Cf.TACT, TANGENT, TANGIBLE, TASK

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