borrowed from Greek táxis arrangement, disposition, order — more at taxis.
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The term gypsy cabs once referred to illegal taxis. These days the term usually refers to any driver who is licensed and works for one of the hundreds of legal car service companies in the city.
Its aviation sense comes from a flying machine built over 100 years ago in Paris in which early student pilots would practice taking off and landing; because this aircraft spent most of the time slowly rolling around the flight school grounds like a taxicab looking for a fare, it acquired the name “taxi.” Today, ...
Although there are some phonetic differences, the growth of international tourism made the use of the word “taxi” more and more universal so that, nowadays, almost everyone can understand its meaning.