The corpus record — Latin

tax

whack

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Where it lives

Persa 1 · 1.27/10k

What it meant

tax — Lewis & Short

tax, an onomatopee, expressing the sound of blows, Engl.

I whack: tax tax tergo meo erit: non curo, my back will get whack, whack, Plaut. Pers. 2, 3, 12 (Ritschl reads tuxtax).

In the wild

tax Plautus, Persa 2.3

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.