taxi

Shortened from taximeter cab, taximeter (“automatic meter that records distance and fare”) from French taximètre, from German Taxameter (whence also English taxameter), coined from Medieval Latin taxa (“tax, charge”).^[1] More at tax, task.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtæk.si/

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• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -æksi

taxi (plural taxis or taxies)

1. A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, driven by a taxi driver.
   • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 12:

     "Taxi," he called. And when one pulled up to the curb with screeching brakes he ordered, "The nearest restaurant."

   • 2007 August 24, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 1:

     [Sobbing uncontrollably] I thought I could make it work between us because you looked a bit like a man.
     TAXI!

2. (aviation) The movement of an aircraft across an airport's surface under its own power; a phase of aircraft operation involving this movement.

   During taxi, the flaps and slats are extended and the second engine (if not already running) is started.

   Seat belts must be kept fastened during taxi, takeoff, turbulence, and landing.

3. (South Africa) A share taxi.

• (vehicle hired for single journeys): cab, taxicab, yellow cab

• → Burmese: တက္ကစီ (takka.ci)
• → Cantonese: 的士 (dik¹ si^6-2)
  • → Mandarin: 的士 (dīshì, díshì)
• → Cantonese: 德士 (dak¹ si^6-2)
• → Irish: tacsaí
• → Japanese: タクシー (takushī)
  • → Hakka: 他庫西／他库西 (thà-khu-sí)
• → Korean: 택시 (taeksi)
• → Malay: teksi
• → Welsh: tacsi
• → Yiddish: טאַקסי (taksi)
• → Yoruba: takisí; tasín

• hackney cab

taxi (third-person singular simple present taxies or taxis, present participle taxiing or taxying, simple past and past participle taxied)

1. To move an aircraft on the ground under its own power.

   taxi down the runway

2. To travel by taxicab.
   • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 1:

     [H]e had taxied to the waterfront bent upon a business in which nostalgia had no part[.]

• taxicab
• taxiway

• tasi

taxi m (plural taxis)

1. taxi (vehicle)

taxi ?

1. taxi

• taxilari
• taximetro

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtak.si]

Clipping of taxímetre.

taxi m (plural taxis)

1. taxi

• taxista

taxi f (plural taxis)

1. (biology) taxis

• “taxi” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

taxi n (indeclinable)

1. taxi

   Synonym: taxík

• “taxi”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “taxi”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

taxi c (definite singular taxien, indefinite plural taxier, definite plural taxierne)

1. taxi

• taxa

Borrowed from French taxi, from German Taxameter.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑk.si/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ta‧xi
• Rhymes: -ɑksi

taxi m (plural taxi's, diminutive taxietje n)

1. a taxi

• taxichauffeur

• taxi-auto
• taximeter

• → Aukan: takisi
• → Caribbean Hindustani: taxi
• → Indonesian: taksi

Shortening of taximètre.

• IPA^(key): /tak.si/

• Audio:

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taxi m (plural taxis)

1. taxi
2. (by extension) taxi driver
   • 1987, “Joe le taxi”, Étienne Roda-Gil (lyrics), Franck Langolff (music), performed by Vanessa Paradis:

     Joe le taxi / C’est sa vie

     Joe the taxi driver / This is his life

3. (by extension) helicopter or plane used for transport
4. (military) act of transporting troops

• → Polish: taxi
• → Persian: تاکسی (tâksi)

• “taxi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• ixât

From German Taxi.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒksi]
• Hyphenation: ta‧xi
• Rhymes: -si

taxi (plural taxik)

1. taxi (a vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, driven by a taxi driver)

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	taxi	taxik
accusative	taxit	taxikat
dative	taxinak	taxiknak
instrumental	taxival	taxikkal
causal-final	taxiért	taxikért
translative	taxivá	taxikká
terminative	taxiig	taxikig
essive-formal	taxiként	taxikként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	taxiban	taxikban
superessive	taxin	taxikon
adessive	taxinál	taxiknál
illative	taxiba	taxikba
sublative	taxira	taxikra
allative	taxihoz	taxikhoz
elative	taxiból	taxikból
delative	taxiról	taxikról
ablative	taxitól	taxiktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	taxié	taxiké
non-attributive possessive - plural	taxiéi	taxikéi

Possessive forms of taxi
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	taxim	taxijaim (or taxiim)
2nd person sing.	taxid	taxijaid (or taxiid)
3rd person sing.	taxija	taxijai (or taxii)
1st person plural	taxink	taxijaink (or taxiink)
2nd person plural	taxitok	taxijaitok (or taxiitok)
3rd person plural	taxijuk	taxijaik (or taxiik)

• taxi in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈtak.si/, /tasˈsi/^*[1]

• Audio ("un tàxi"):

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• Rhymes: -aksi, -i
• Hyphenation: tà‧xi

taxi m

1. taxi

   Synonym: tassì

taxī

1. inflection of taxus:
   1. nominative/vocative plural
   2. genitive singular

Borrowed from English taxi.

taxi m (plural taxis)

1. (Jersey) taxi

From English taxi.

taxi m (definite singular taxien, indefinite plural taxier, definite plural taxiene)

1. a taxi (only cars)

• drosje (also horse-drawn vehicles, etc.)

• taxibåt
• taxipris
• taxitur

• “taxi” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• taksi

From English taxi.

taxi m (definite singular taxien, indefinite plural taxiar, definite plural taxiane)

1. a taxi (cars only)

• drosje (also horse-drawn vehicles, etc.)

• taxibåt
• taxipris
• taxitur

• “taxi” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• taksi

Unadapted borrowing from French taxi.^[1][2] First attested in the 20th century.^[3]

• IPA^(key): /ˈtak.si/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aksi
• Syllabification: ta‧xi

taxi n (indeclinable)

1. (colloquial) taxi (vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, driven by a taxi driver)

   Synonym: taksówka

• taxi in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• taxi in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French taxi.

• IPA^(key): /tak.ˈsi/

• Audio:

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taxi n (plural taxiuri)

1. taxi

   Synonym: (rare) taximetru

Clipping of taxímetro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɡsi/ [ˈt̪aɣ̞.si]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -aɡsi
• Syllabification: ta‧xi

taxi m (plural taxis)

1. taxi

   Synonyms: remise (Argentina), concho (Dominican Republic)

• “taxi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

• IPA^(key): /ˈtakːsɪ/

taxi c

1. taxi

• taxameter

• IPA^(key): /tak.si/

taxi m

1. (nonstandard) taxi