cost

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, Northern England, Wales, Canada) IPA(key): /kɒst/ (Standard Southern British, Scotland, Australia) IPA(key): /kɔst/ (US) (without the cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /kɔst/ (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /kɑst/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): /kɒst/, [kɔ̟st] ~ [kɞ̠st] Rhymes: -ɒst Hyphenation: cost === Etymology 1 === From Middle English costen, from Old French coster, couster (“to cost”), from Medieval Latin cōstō, from Latin cōnstō (“stand together”). ==== Verb ==== cost (third-person singular simple present costs, present participle costing, simple past and past participle cost or costed) (transitive, ditransitive) To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price. (transitive, ditransitive) To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of. To require to be borne or suffered; to cause. To calculate or estimate a price. (transitive, colloquial) To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering. ===== Usage notes ===== The past tense and past participle is cost in the sense of "this computer cost me £600", but costed in the sense of 'calculated', "the project was costed at $1 million." ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English cost, coust, from costen (“to cost”), from the same source as above. ==== Noun ==== cost (countable and uncountable, plural costs) Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used. A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur. ===== Hyponyms ===== ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 3 === From Middle English cost, from Old English cost (“option, choice, possibility, manner, way, condition”), from Old Norse kostr (“choice, opportunity, chance, condition, state, quality”), from Proto-Germanic *kustuz (“choice, trial”) (or Proto-Germanic *kustiz (“choice, trial”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus (“to enjoy, taste”). Cognate with Icelandic kostur, German dialectal Kust (“taste, flavour”), Dutch kust (“choice, choosing”), North Frisian kest (“choice, estimation, virtue”), West Frisian kêst (“article of law, statute”), Old English cyst (“free-will, choice, election, the best of anything, the choicest, picked host, moral excellence, virtue, goodness, generosity, munificence”), Latin gustus (“taste”). Related to choose. Doublet of gusto. ==== Noun ==== cost (plural costs) (obsolete) Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.(Can we add an example for this sense?) Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic. ===== Derived terms ===== at all costs ===== Related terms ===== costen costning needs-cost === Etymology 4 === From Middle English coste, from Old French coste, from Latin costa. Doublet of coast and cuesta. ==== Noun ==== cost (plural costs) (obsolete) A rib; a side. (heraldry) A cottise. Coordinate terms: bendlet, garter, riband === Anagrams === C.O.T.S., COTS, CSTO, CTOs, OCTS, OSTC, Scot, Scot., TOCs, cots, scot == Catalan == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Northern) [ˈko̞st] IPA(key): (Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈkɔst] === Etymology 1 === Deverbal from costar. ==== Noun ==== cost m (plural costs or costos) cost ===== Derived terms ===== preu de cost ===== Related terms ===== costar === Etymology 2 === From Latin costum. ==== Noun ==== cost m (uncountable) costmary (Tanacetum balsamita) === Further reading === Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “cost”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan) “cost”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026 “cost”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007 == Manx == === Noun === cost m (genitive singular cost, plural costyn) charge (monetary) ==== Derived terms ==== costal == Old English == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *kust-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- (“to choose”). Akin to Old Saxon kostōn (“to try, tempt”), Old High German kostōn (“to taste, test, try by tasting”) (German kosten), Icelandic kosta (“to try, tempt”), Gothic 𐌺𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 (kustus, “test”), Old English cystan (“to spend, get the value of, procure”), Old English cyst (“proof, test, trial; choice”), ċēosan (“to choose”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kost/ === Noun === cost m option, choice; possibility condition, manner, way þæs costes þe ― on the condition that ==== Declension ==== Strong a-stem: === Adjective === cost chosen, choice tried, proven; excellent ==== Declension ==== == Old French == === Etymology === From Latin constare, present infinitive of consto (“to stand firm (at a price)”). === Noun === cost oblique singular, m (oblique plural coz or cotz, nominative singular coz or cotz, nominative plural cost) cost; financial outlay ==== Related terms ==== coster == Romanian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [kost] === Etymology 1 === ==== Verb ==== cost first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of costa === Etymology 2 === Back-formation from costa ==== Noun ==== cost n (uncountable) cost ===== Declension ===== == Welsh == === Etymology === Borrowed from English cost. === Pronunciation === (North Wales) IPA(key): /koːsd/, [kʰoːst] (South Wales) IPA(key): /kɔsd/, [kʰɔst] Rhymes: -ɔsd === Noun === cost m or f (plural costau) cost expense ==== Derived terms ==== costfawr (“costly”, adjective) costio (“cost”, verb) costus (“costly”, adjective) === Mutation === === Further reading === R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “cost”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies