pretium

Latin

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From Proto-Indo-European *preti- (“back”) in the sense of recompense, compensation.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpre.ti.um/, [ˈprɛt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpret.t͡si.um/, [ˈprɛt̪ː͡s̪ium]

Noun

pretium n (genitive pretiī or pretī); second declension

1. worth, price, value, cost
2. pay, hire, wage, reward
3. ransom
4. bribe
5. punishment

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• adpretiō, appretiō
• impretiābilis
• manupretium
• pretiō
• pretiōsus

Related terms

• pretiōsē
• pretiōsitās

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: preț
• Italian: prezzo
• Old French: pris, prez, preis, prix
  • French: prix
    • → Rade: pri
  • Norman: prix
  • → Proto-Brythonic:
    • Cornish: pris
    • Old Breton: pris
      • Middle Breton: pris
        • Breton: priz
    • Welsh: pris
  • → Middle Dutch: prijs, prise
    • Dutch: prijs
      • Afrikaans: prys
      • Negerhollands: pries
      • → Caribbean Javanese: près, prèis
      • → Indonesian: pris
      • → Papiamentu: preis
    • Limburgish: pries
  • → Middle English: price
    • English: price, prize (obsolete)
      • → Irish: praghas
    • Scots: price
  • → Middle High German: prīs
    • German: Preis
    • Luxembourgish: Präis
    • Yiddish: פּרײַז (prayz)
  • → Middle Low German: pris
    • German Low German: Pries
    • → Old Norse: príss
      • Norwegian Bokmål: pris
      • Old Swedish: pris
        • Swedish: pris
      • Danish: pris
• Old Occitan: pretz
  • Occitan: prètz
  • → Spanish: prez
• Old Galician-Portuguese: preço
  • Galician: prezo
  • 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
  • > Chavacano: precio (inherited)
  • → Asturian: preciu
  • → Basque: prezio
  • → Cebuano: presyo
  • → Ilocano: presio
  • → Tagalog: presyo

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pretium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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