taxi的词源

英文词源

taxi

taxi: [20] Taxi is short for taximeter cab, a term coined around 1890 for a cab fitted with a taximeter, a device for showing the fare to be paid. Taximeter [19] was borrowed from French taximètre, a compound noun formed from taxe ‘charge, tariff’ (a relative of English tax) and mètre ‘meter’.
=> tax

taxi (n.)

1907, shortening of taximeter cab (introduced in London in March 1907), from taximeter "automatic meter to record the distance and fare" (1898), from French taximètre, from German Taxameter (1890), coined from Medieval Latin taxa "tax, charge."

An earlier English form was taxameter (1894), used in horse-drawn cabs. Taxi dancer "woman whose services may be hired at a dance hall" is recorded from 1930. Taxi squad in U.S. football is 1966, said to be from a former Cleveland Browns owner who gave his reserves jobs with his taxicab company to keep them paid and available ["Dictionary of American Slang"], but other explanations ("short-term hire" or "shuttling back and forth" from the main team) seem possible.

taxi (v.)

1911, of airplanes, from slang use of taxi (n.) for "aircraft," or from or reinforced "in allusion to the way a taxi driver slowly cruises when looking for fares" [Barnhart]. Related: Taxied; taxiing.

中文词源

taxi（出租车）：装有自动计价器的出租汽车

英语单词taxi（出租车）与tax（税）的拼写如此接近，它们之间有什么关联呢？原来，taxi是taximeter cab（装有自动计价器的出租汽车）的缩写。cab本指一种通常用于出租的轻便二轮马车，汽车发明后也可以表示出租车。而taximeter是“计价器”的意思，来自德语taxameter，由taxa（tax，charge，费用）+meter（计量器）构成。所以taxi一词原本表示“出租的、按时间或里程收费的”，除了出租车外还可以表示其他可租用的商品或服务，如taxi dancer指的是提供陪舞服务的女人。

taxi： ['tæksɪ] n.出租车vt.使滑行，用出租车送vi.乘坐出租车，打车，滑行

该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：taxi 词源，taxi 含义。

taxi：出租汽车

在计程车即出租汽车出现之前很长一段时间法国出租马车（fiacre）就已在车上安装计程器，法语叫 taximètre,由taxe （价钱，价目表）和mètre （仪表）组成，英语借用了该词，作taximeter。1907年美国一位名叫Harry N.Allen的商从出于对当时最昂马车费愤怒，从法国进口了一批4缸16马力的汽车，在纽约曼哈顿办起了汽车出租事业。他把这种计程出租汽车取名为 taximeter cab,其中cab是从源于法语的cabriolet （马车）一词缩略而来。嗣后，taximeter cab 被缩略为taxicab 。有人仍然认为词太长又进一步将之缩略为taxi或cab。但后一形式似乎多用于美国。可见，taxi与cab表面上似乎分别为taximeter 与cabriolet 之略，实际上都是从taximeter cabriolet缩略而来。

taxi：出租汽车 

是taximeter cab(带计程器的出租车)的缩写。

taxi：出租汽车，的士

缩写自 taximeter cab,计程马车，计程车，来自 taximeter,计程表，计价器。

taxi：出租汽车，的士

缩写自 taximeter cab,计程马车，计程车，来自 taximeter,计程表，计价器。