English
tasklet
From task + -let.
Formed from task + -let
Latin taxō ‘to censure; to charge’
Latin taxa
Medieval Latin tasca
Old Northern French tasque
Middle English taske ‘task, tax’
English task
Today it means
noun A kind of simple task in some operating systems.
Sources
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