fortax

From Middle English fortaxen. By surface analysis, for- +‎ tax.

fortax (third-person singular simple present fortaxes, present participle fortaxing, simple past and past participle fortaxed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To tax heavily; burden.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek φόρταξ (phórtax, “bearer”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔr.taːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔr.t̪aks]

fortāx m (genitive fortācis); third declension

1. The basis on which a furnace rests

Third-declension noun.

• “fortax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fortax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.