pretium
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *preti- (“back”) in the sense of recompense, compensation.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpre.ti.um/, [ˈprɛ.ti.ũ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpre.t͡si.um/, [ˈpreː.t͡si.um]
Noun
Declension
Second declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pretium | pretia |
Genitive | pretiī pretī1 |
pretiōrum |
Dative | pretiō | pretiīs |
Accusative | pretium | pretia |
Ablative | pretiō | pretiīs |
Vocative | pretium | pretia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
Related terms
- pretiōsē
- pretiōsitās
Descendants
- Eastern Romance:
- Romanian: preț
- Italian: prezzo
- Old French: pris, prez, preis, prix
- Old Occitan: pretz
- Old Portuguese: preço
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: presi
- Romansch: pretsch, prezi, predsch
- Sardinian: préciu, preju, prégiu, présiu, prétziu
- Sicilian: prezzu
- → Maltese: prezz
- → Asturian: preciu
- → Italian: pregio
- → Spanish: precio
- → Basque: prezio
References
- pretium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pretium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pretium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- pretium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- it is worth while: operae pretium est (c. Inf.)
- to fix a price for a thing: pretium alicui rei statuere, constituere (Att. 13. 22)
- (ambiguous) to buy cheaply: parvo, vili pretio or bene emere
- (ambiguous) to restore prisoners without ransom: captivos sine pretio reddere
- it is worth while: operae pretium est (c. Inf.)
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