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单词 quatrime
释义

quatrimen.

Forms: late Middle English quaterime, late Middle English quateryme, late Middle English quatryme, late Middle English–1500s katereme, 1500s katerenme.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French quatrieme.
Etymology: < Middle French quatrieme tax or duty levied especially on wine or cider, originally a quarter of the sales price (1379; French quatrième ; now regional (Normandy)), use as noun of quatrieme , quatriesme fourth (c1300 in Old French as quatroysme ) < quatre (see quatre n.) + -ième (see quatorzeim n.).With the form katerenme perhaps compare α. forms at quatrin n.
Obsolete.
A twenty-five percent duty or tax levied on certain commodities, such as wine.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > fixed proportion dues or taxes > [noun] > one-fourth
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c1450 (c1425) Brut (Cambr. Kk.1.12) 391 Þe comunez of the toun..yerely to pay hym..for al maner customez..& quaterymez.
a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 131 The gabell off the salt and the quaterimes of the wynes were graunted to the kynge by the iij estates off Fraunce.
?a1500 (a1471) Brut (Lyell) in J. S. Davies Eng. Chron. (1856) 48 Alle maner custumez, fefermez, and quatrymez.
1520 Chron. Eng. vii. f. 149/2 All maner customes and fee fermes and kateremes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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