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”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈprɛ.ti.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈprɛt.t͡si.um] === Noun === pretium n (genitive pretiī or pretī); second declension worth, price, value, cost pay, hire, wage Synonyms: praemium, stīpendium, commodum, mercēs reward Synonyms: praemium, datum, dōnum, oblātiō ransom bribe Synonym: praemium punishment Synonyms: pūnītiō, sānctiō, poena, supplicium, exemplum, vindicātiō, vindicta, animadversus, malum, mercēs ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === === 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, 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. Buchi, Éva; Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008–), “*/ˈprɛti-u/”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.