tithe
noun /taɪð/
/taɪð/
- (in the past) a tenth of the goods that somebody produced or the money that they earned, that was paid as a tax to support the Church
(旧时按固定比例给教会的)什一税 - (in some Christian Churches today) a tenth of a person’s income, that they give to the Church
(现在某些教友按收入的十分之一给基督教教会的)什一捐献
词源Old English tēotha (adjective in the ordinal sense ‘tenth’, used in a specialized sense as a noun), tēothian (verb).