tricesimation

See also: Tricesimation

English

Etymology

From the German Tricesimation, ultimately from the Latin trīcēsimus (“thirtieth”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: trī'sēsĭmāʹshən, IPA^(key): /ˌtɹaɪsiːsɪˈmeɪʃən/

Noun

tricesimation

1. (history, rare) A one-thirtieth tax introduced in the Duchy of Württemberg in 1691.
   • 1995, Peter H. Wilson, War, State and Society in Württemberg, 1677–1793, page 117:

     On 25 June a fifth emergency tax was introduced to cover the increased expense. This was the Tricesimation which was the ducal answer to the estates’ Accise. For the first time the duke had a tax that both approximated to the level of economic production and above all was under his control.⁷⁷
     ⁷⁷ The Tricesimation was a one-thirtieth purchase and produce tax collected by ducal officials…. No records of the level collected survive, but around 1700 the Tricesimation brought in about 100,000fl. annually.

   • 2006, Paul Warde, Ecology, Economy and State Formation in Early Modern Germany, page 148:

     Between 1691 and 1724 cultivators were subject to the Tricesimation, a tax of one-thirtieth of grain and wine produced.

Coordinate terms

• (proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part): quintation (1/5), septimation (1/7), decimation (1/10), vicesimation (1/20), centesimation (1/100)

Anagrams

• misrecitation