pretium
Latin
Etymology
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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
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
Related terms
Descendants
- Eastern Romance:
- Romanian: preț
- Italian: prezzo
- Old French: pris, prez, preis, prix
- Old Occitan: pretz
- Old Galician-Portuguese: preço
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: préciu, preju, prégiu, présiu, prétziu
- Sicilian: prezzu
- → Maltese: prezz
- → Asturian: preciu
- → Italian: pregio
- → Spanish: precio
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
- it is worth while: operae pretium est (c. Inf.)