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vectigal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
vecti-gal
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A tax.

Obsolete

Etymology

From Latin vectīgal, from Latin vect(is) (“lever, leverage”) + Latin ig(ō) (“act, make, do, go”) + -al.

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Inflected Forms

vectigals (plural)

Questions

What does vectigal mean?
A tax.
Where does vectigal come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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