English → Latin
“tax” in Latin
vectīgaltax, tribute, (public) revenue; windfall, profit, (private) revenuetribuōto grant, bestow, assign, attribute; to yield, give up, concede, allow; to divide, share, distributestīpendiumtax, impost, tribute, contribution; dues; pay, stipend (military)vīcēsimustwentieth; one-twentiethquadrāgēsimusfortiethonusburden, load; cargo, freight; tax, tax burdenscrībōto writeportōriumport duty, levie paid by ships to finance upkeep of public harbours; 1/40 (2.5%) custom-tax on trade between Roman provihērēditāsinheritance; hereditary succession; hereditary legacymanūmissiōmanumission, emancipation (freeing of a slave)
The English word tax itself goes back to Latin taxō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
tax s.
vectigal (general term, especially on land. Particular parts of this were decumae, the tenth of corn; scriptura, the tenth of pasturage; portorium, harbor dues, customs, for which, also, the general term vectigal is used): tributum (poll tax, property tax): stipendium (like tributum, a kind of contribution imposed on conquered people, after a rate of PROP.): vicesima (a twentieth, five per cent.; hereditatum, manumissionum): quadragesima (a fortieth): onera (burdens borne by citizens). A door-tax, ostiarium: to lay or impose a tax on, vectigal, tributum imponere (alicui or alicui rei); tributum indicere alicui (on persons; ☞ not rei): to pay taxes, be tributary, vectigalia pensitare: to pay the taxes, tributa vectigalia pendere: to collect taxes, vectigalia, etc., exigere: a collector of taxes, tax-gatherer, vectigalium exactor: to be a tax-gatherer, vectigalia exercere: to remit taxes for five years, tributum in quinquennium remittere alicui: to petition for a reduction of taxes, magnitudinem onerum deprecari apud aliquem: to exempt from taxes, a tributis vindicare or tributis liberare aliquem: free from taxes, immunis tributorum (opposed to vectigalis).
tax v.
vectigal, tributum imponere alicui or rei: tributum indicere alicui (☞ not rei) [Vid :, also, ASSESS].
ImPROP., Nature seems to have taxed her creative powers to the uttermost, natura (in hoc) quid efficere posset, videtur experta.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for tax?
- The usual Latin words for “tax” are vectīgal, tribuō, stīpendium; also vīcēsimus, quadrāgēsimus, onus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.