noun · neuterthird declension
vectīgal
vectīgal n (genitive vectīgālis)
Classical[wɛkˈtiː.ɡaɫ]Ecclesiastical[vekˈtiː.ɡal]
Meaning
- tax, tribute, (public) revenue
O di immortales! non intellegunt homines, quam magnum vectigal sit parsimonia.
O immortal gods! People do not understand how great a revenue parsimony can be.46 BCE, Cicero, Paradoxa Stoicorum 49 - figurativelywindfall, profit, (private) revenue
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
pecūnia pūblica, tribūtumvectīgal -ālis (n) — in Evangelium secundum Marcum, ch. 4
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | vectīgal | vectīgālia |
| genitive | vectīgālis | vectīgālium vectīgāliōrum |
| dative | vectīgālī | vectīgālibus |
| accusative | vectīgal | vectīgālia |
| ablative | vectīgālī | vectīgālibus |
| vocative | vectīgal | vectīgālia |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- vectigalia exigere (acerbe)
- to exact the taxes (with severity).
- vectigalia, tributa pendere
- to pay taxes.
- vectigalia redimere, conducere
- to farm the revenues.
- vectigalia, tributa alicui imponere
- to impose tribute on some one.
- vectigalia exercere (vid. sect. V. 7, note The first...)
- to collect the taxes.
vectīgal, ālis (
I. gen. plur. vectigaliorum, Suet. Aug. 101; id. Calig. 16:
vectigalium, id. Tib. 49), n. vectus, from veho, a toll, tax, impost paid to the State (cf.: tributum, census, stipendium). I. Lit.:
in vectigalibus non solum adventus mali, sed etiam metus ipse affert calamitatem ... ita neque ex portu neque ex decumis neque ex scripturā vectigal conservari potest, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 6, 15; C. Gracch. ap. Gell 11, 10, 3; Caes. B C 1, 35; id. B. G. 1, 18; 1, 36: pensitare, Cic. Imp Pomp. 6, 16: imponere agro, id. Agr. 2, 21, 55 sq.: levare agrum vectigali, id. Brut. 36, 136.—B. Esp., an honorarium or contribution paid to a magistrate:
praetorium, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 11: aedilicium, the contribution of a province to the games instituted by an œdile, id. Q. Fr, 1, 1, 9, § 26.—II. Transf, of private affairs, revenue, rents, income, etc.:
vectigalia urbana rusticis (anteponantur), Cic. Off. 2, 25, 88; cf.: ex meo tenui vectigali, id. Par. 6, 3, 49; Hor. C. 3, 16, 40; Col. praef. § 27; Plin. 9, 54, 79, § 168; 26, 3, 8, § 15; Plin. Ep. 7, 18, 2 sq.—Prov.: magnum vectigal est Parsimonia, Cic. Par. 6, 3, 49.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
vectīgal ālis, n
VAG-, a payment to the state, revenue, toll, tax, impost, excise, duty, tribute: neque ex portu vectigal conservari potest: vectigalia parvo pretio redempta, Cs.—A payment to a magistrate, contribution to a governor, honorarium: praetorium: aedilicium, the contribution of a province to the games held by an aedile.—Private income, revenue, rents: ex meo tenui vectigali: parva Vectigalia porrigam, etc., H.—Prov.: quam magnum vectigal sit Parsimonia.
Origins
Substantivation of apocopated vectīgāle, nominative neuter singular of vectīgālis (“pertaining to tax, taxable”), see -al.
In English words that came into English from vectīgal
- vectigalvectīgal