pretium
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *pretjom, from Proto-Indo-European *pr-é-ti ~ *pr-ó-ti, from *per- (“in front”) perhaps in the meaning of “equivalence, recompense, compensation”. Compare Proto-Slavic *protivъ (“contrary, against”), Ancient Greek πρός (prós) from older προτί (protí, “in the direction of, towards, near”), Sanskrit प्रति (prati, “towards, near; against”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈprɛ.ti.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈprɛt̪.t̪͡s̪i.um]
Noun
pretium n (genitive pretiī or pretī); second declension
- worth, price, value, cost
- c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.1.2:
- Quem mihi dabis quī aliquod pretium temporī pōnat, quī diem aestimet, quī intellegat sē cotīdiē morī?
- What man can you show me who places any value on [his] time, who can reckon the worth of a day, who understands himself to be dying every day?
- Quem mihi dabis quī aliquod pretium temporī pōnat, quī diem aestimet, quī intellegat sē cotīdiē morī?
- pay, hire, wage
- Synonyms: praemium, stīpendium, commodum, mercēs
- reward
- ransom
- bribe
- Synonym: praemium
- punishment
- Synonyms: pūnītiō, sānctiō, poena, supplicium, exemplum, vindicātiō, vindicta, animadversus, malum, mercēs
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| 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
Descendants
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “pretium”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 488
Further reading
- “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.)
- Buchi, Éva, Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008–) “*/ˈprɛti-u/”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.