English
tallage
Tallage comes from French taillage, from tailler ‘to cut’, and ultimately from Latin tālea ‘cutting taken from a plant’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtālea‘cutting taken from a plant’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEtāliō‘to cut’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400taillier‘to cut’
- Frenchc. 1600–presenttailler‘to cut’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presenttaillage
- Englishearliest quotation 1765–1769tallage
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtālea‘cutting taken from a plant’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEtāliō‘to cut’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400taillier‘to cut’
- Frenchc. 1600–presenttailler‘to cut’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presenttaillage
- Englishearliest quotation 1765–1769tallage
Earliest quotation: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England: “The land tax, in its modern shape, has superseded…”
Linked words
through Latin tālea ‘cutting taken from a plant’
entail, tally, intaglio, 9 more
through Late Latin tāliō ‘to cut’
through Old French taillier ‘to cut’
Today it means
noun An impost.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin tālea / tallage