1. s. vectigal (general term, especially on land. Particular parts of this were decumae, the tenth of corn; scriptura, the tenth of pasturage; portorium, harbor dues, customs, for which, also, the general term vectigal is used): tributum (poll tax, property tax): stipendium (like tributum, a kind of contribution imposed on conquered people, after a rate of PROP.): vicesima (a twentieth, five per cent.; hereditatum, manumissionum): quadragesima (a fortieth): onera (burdens borne by citizens). A door-tax, ostiarium: to lay or impose a tax on, vectigal, tributum imponere (alicui or alicui rei); tributum indicere alicui (on persons; ☞ not rei): to pay taxes, be tributary, vectigalia pensitare: to pay the taxes, tributa vectigalia pendere: to collect taxes, vectigalia, etc., exigere: a collector of taxes, tax-gatherer, vectigalium exactor: to be a tax-gatherer, vectigalia exercere: to remit taxes for five years, tributum in quinquennium remittere alicui: to petition for a reduction of taxes, magnitudinem onerum deprecari apud aliquem: to exempt from taxes, a tributis vindicare or tributis liberare aliquem: free from taxes, immunis tributorum (opposed to vectigalis).