fortax

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English fortaxen. By surface analysis, for- +‎ tax. === Verb === fortax (third-person singular simple present fortaxes, present participle fortaxing, simple past and past participle fortaxed) (transitive, obsolete) To tax heavily; burden. == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek φόρταξ (phórtax, “bearer”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfɔr.taːks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfɔr.taks] === Noun === fortāx m (genitive fortācis); third declension The basis on which a furnace rests ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === References === “fortax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “fortax”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.