"Taxi" is Latin

I made a conjecture at the end of my most recent post about certain words, and I have proven that conjecture false. "Taxi" is a shortening of "taxicab", which itself is an English contraction of "taximeter cabriolet", which itself is based on the French "taximetre", taken from an old German word "taxameter". "Taxameter" was coined by the combination of the Latin "taxa", to charge, and the Greek "metron", measure.

Thus concludes our brief etymological lesson for this morning.