vectigal

== English == === Etymology === From Latin vectīgal, from Latin vect(is) (“lever, leverage”) +‎ Latin ig(ō) (“act, make, do, go”) +‎ -al. === Noun === vectigal (plural vectigals) (obsolete) A tax. == Latin == === Etymology === Substantivation of apocopated vectīgāle, nominative neuter singular of vectīgālis (“pertaining to tax, taxable”), see -al. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wɛkˈtiː.ɡaɫ] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [vekˈtiː.ɡal] === Noun === vectīgal n (genitive vectīgālis); third declension tax, tribute, (public) revenue (figuratively) windfall, profit, (private) revenue ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem). ==== Related terms ==== vector vehiculum === References === “vectigal”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “vectigal”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “vectigal”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN