Where did the word 'Taxi' come from?

Question

why do we call taxi's,well taxi's?!

Answer 1

The name taxicab - usually abbreviated to taxi - derives from the taximeter, the instrument which measures the distance travelled - or time taken -thus allowing an accurate fare to be determined. This device was invented by the German inventor, Wilhelm Bruhn in 1891. Gottlieb Daimler built the world's first dedicated taxi in 1897 called the Daimler Victoria. The taxi came equipped with the newly invented taxi meter. On 16 June, 1897 the Daimler Victoria taxi was delivered to Friedrich Greiner, a Stuttgart entrepreneur who started the world's first motorized taxi company.

Answer 2

It comes from a private postal system operated in western and central Europe by the noble house of Thurn and Taxis. At least two early ancestors of the family, then called Tassis, had operated courier services in the Italian city-states from about 1290, but the family's important postal activities began with Franz von Taxis, who served as postmaster to the Holy Rome

Answer 3

The word taxi is an abbreviation of the word taximetre ... which is a french word. It translates to taxi = tariff, meter = metre. Taximeter is a device to calculate the fare of a distance travelled

Answer 4

The word Taxi comes from taximeter and is originating from the Greek word TAXIDEYO meaning to travel

Answer 5

TAXIDEYO is greek, french, other europeans later used taximetre, then america used taxi

Answer 6

Alternatively, from the European family of Tor-und-Taxi, whose fortunes were founded on currier and coach-hire services!

Answer 7

Taxis (pronounced tack siss) is the greek for movement.

Answer 8

From French "taximètre", an instrument for measurung taxes or tariffs.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

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