excise

excise · noun, verb¹

1. Latin · derived fromad
2. Vulgar Latin · derived from*accensum
3. Old French · derived fromacceis“tax, assessment”
4. Middle Dutch · derived fromexcijs
5. English todayexcise

From Middle Dutch excijs, altered under the influence of Latin excisus (“cut out, removed”), from earlier accijs (“tax”), from Old French acceis (“tax, assessment”) (whence modern French accise), from Vulgar Latin *accensum, ultimately from Latin ad + census (“tax, census”).

excise · verb²

1. Latin · derived fromexcisus
2. French · derived fromexciser
3. English todayexcise

From French exciser, from Latin excisus, past participle of excīdō (“cut out”), from ex (“out of, from”) + caedō (“cut”).

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