Kilo Lingo

el

masculine

/ˈtaksi/

Line drawing of taxi
Coloured illustration of taxi
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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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This word is part of lesson 23.