tâche

task; assignment

“Oui, madame, mais Jasper Hobson n’a jamais reculé devant une tâche à accomplir, si rude qu’elle pût être.” — Yes, ma'am, but Jasper Hobson never shrank from a task that he had to do, no matter how rough it might be.

Inherited from Old French tasche, from Early Medieval Latin tasca, variant of taxa, from Latin taxō (“to handle, appraise”), from tangō (“to touch”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-, cognate with Ancient Greek τάσσω (tássō, “to organise, arrange”).