el
masculine
/ˈtaksi/
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Translation
taxi, cab
Word origin
Shortened from taximetre (taximeter), coined from Latin taxa ('charge') and Greek metron ('measure'). An international twentieth-century word.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- taxa
- English cognates
- tax, metre
Grammar
Gendermasculine
Pluraltaxis
Examples
¿ ?
Shall we call a taxi to the airport?
.
The taxi cost us twenty in the end.
.
He works driving a taxi at night.
tardó .
The taxi took half an hour to arrive in the rain.
metro .
We took a taxi because the underground was closed.
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