Translation
tax
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Word origin
From Italian imposta, the past participle of imporre, which is Latin imponere ('to place upon'), in- plus ponere ('to put'). A tax is literally something laid on you.
- Origin
- Italian, from Latin
- Root
- impositum
- English cognates
- impost, impose, position
Examples
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The government is demanding new taxes.
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Every citizen has to pay taxes.
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The tax on wine is high.
The word invites a parse it will not support. Im- is not an Esperanto prefix at all, and there is no root post- behind it: the mail is , a job or station is , and post on its own is the preposition "after". - is one borrowed root. The Latin inside it is worth knowing all the same, because ("to impose") is a live Esperanto verb from the same family, and means to tax.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 19, lesson 6: imposto, indiĝeno, papilio and 6 more words.