praemium

See also: præmium

English

From Latin praemium (“prize”).

praemium (not comparable)

praemium (plural praemia)

“praemium”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

From prae- (“before”) + emō (“acquire, obtain”), i.e. "what one has got before or better than others".

praemium n (genitive praemiī or praemī); second declension

profit derived from booty
profit, advantage, prerogative, distinction
Synonyms: commodum, profectus, usus, commoditās, lucrum

Antonyms: incommodum, detrimentum, damnum
prize, reward, recompense
bribe, bribery
Synonyms: mercēs, stīpendium, pretium, datum, donum, oblātiō, datiō, commodum
(figuratively), the ironical sense of a reward, etc., as a desired thought, feeling, result or outcome
Synonym: pretium
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.32-33:
  “[...] sōlāne perpetuā maerēns carpēre iuventā,
  nec dulcis nātōs, Veneris nec praemia nōris?”
  “[...] [will you] waste away alone, sorrowful all throughout your youth, never to have known sweet children, nor the rewards of Venus?”
  (That is, the pleasures of sexual love. Syncopation: nōris = nōveris. Translations vary – Mackail, 1885: “love’s bounty”; Knight, 1956: “all that Venus gives”; Mandelbaum, 1971: “the soft rewards”; Fitzgerald, 1981: “the crown of joy that Venus brings”; West, 1990: “the rewards of love”; Lombardo, 2005: “love’s joys”; Fagles, 2006: “all the gifts of love”; Ahl, 2007: “joys Venus offers, delights that she yields”.)
- Spinoza, Ethica Liber V:
  Beatitudo non est virtutis praemium, sed ipsa virtus.
  Happiness is not a reward of virtue, but is a virtue itself.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

“praemium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“praemium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
“praemium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to remunerate (handsomely): praemiis (amplissimis, maximis) aliquem afficere
- to reward a man according to his deserts: meritum praemium alicui persolvere
- (to encourage) by offering a reward: praemium exponere or proponere
- to offer a prize (for the winner): praemium ponere
De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 189