Where does “excise” come from?
Excise comes from Middle Dutch excijs, from Latin excisus, the past participle of excidere meaning to cut out, from ex- meaning out.
excise (English): A tax charged on goods produced within the...
Definitions
- A tax charged on goods produced within the...
Ancestry of “excise”, step by step
excise traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French exciser
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | exciser | to excise |
| 2 | Latin | excisus | collapsed; escaped |
| 3 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 4 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 5 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 6 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 11 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 12 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 13 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 14 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 15 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via Middle Dutch excijs
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle Dutch | excijs | — |
| 2 | Latin | accijs | — |
| 3 | Old French | acceis | tax, assessment |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | accensum | nominative neuter singular of accēnsus;... |
| 5 | Latin | census | census, a registering of the populace and their... |
| 6 | Latin | censeo | I give an opinion; I think, suppose or judge; I... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | kensēō | to give an opinion |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kensējō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱens-éh₁-ye-ti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱens- | to announce, to proclaim; to put in order |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱem- | to cover, conceal; hornless |