"pretium" meaning in Latin

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Noun

IPA: [ˈprɛ.ti.ũː] [Classical-Latin], [ˈprɛt.t͡si.um] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
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”). Etymology templates: {{root|la|ine-pro|*per-|id=before}}, {{inh|la|itc-pro|*pretjom}} Proto-Italic *pretjom, {{der|la|ine-pro|*próti|*pr-é-ti ~ *pr-ó-ti}} Proto-Indo-European *pr-é-ti ~ *pr-ó-ti, {{cog|sla-pro|*protivъ|t=contrary, against}} Proto-Slavic *protivъ (“contrary, against”), {{cog|grc|πρός}} Ancient Greek πρός (prós), {{cog|sa|प्रति|t=towards, near; against}} Sanskrit प्रति (prati, “towards, near; against”) Head templates: {{la-noun|pretium<2>}} pretium n (genitive pretiī or pretī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|pretium<2>}} Forms: pretiī [genitive], pretī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], pretium [nominative, singular], pretia [nominative, plural], pretiī [genitive, singular], pretī [genitive, singular], pretiōrum [genitive, plural], pretiō [dative, singular], pretiīs [dative, plural], pretium [accusative, singular], pretia [accusative, plural], pretiō [ablative, singular], pretiīs [ablative, plural], pretium [singular, vocative], pretia [plural, vocative]
  1. worth, price, value, cost Tags: declension-2, neuter
    Sense id: en-pretium-la-noun-qKkxQTFz Categories (other): Latin neuter nouns in the second declension, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Latin neuter nouns in the second declension: 14 19 23 16 19 9 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 15 15 20 22 22 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 15 16 22 22 22 3
  2. pay, hire, wage Tags: declension-2, neuter Synonyms: praemium, stīpendium, commodum, mercēs
    Sense id: en-pretium-la-noun-D8LLf8zZ Categories (other): Latin neuter nouns in the second declension, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Latin neuter nouns in the second declension: 14 19 23 16 19 9 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 15 15 20 22 22 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 15 16 22 22 22 3
  3. reward Tags: declension-2, neuter Synonyms: praemium, datum, dōnum, oblātiō
    Sense id: en-pretium-la-noun-dpb~-E8m Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin neuter nouns in the second declension, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 12 13 41 15 15 4 Disambiguation of Latin neuter nouns in the second declension: 14 19 23 16 19 9 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 15 15 20 22 22 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 15 16 22 22 22 3
  4. ransom Tags: declension-2, neuter
    Sense id: en-pretium-la-noun-lt~FvtvU Categories (other): Latin neuter nouns in the second declension, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Latin neuter nouns in the second declension: 14 19 23 16 19 9 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 15 15 20 22 22 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 15 16 22 22 22 3
  5. bribe Tags: declension-2, neuter Synonyms: praemium
    Sense id: en-pretium-la-noun-~OBzJODn Categories (other): Latin neuter nouns in the second declension, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Latin neuter nouns in the second declension: 14 19 23 16 19 9 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 15 15 20 22 22 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 15 16 22 22 22 3
  6. punishment Tags: declension-2, neuter Synonyms: pūnītiō, sānctiō, poena, supplicium, exemplum, vindicātiō, vindicta, animadversus, malum, mercēs
    Sense id: en-pretium-la-noun-b7d48KWB
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: appretiō, manupretium, pretiō, pretiōsus

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "appretiō"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "manupretium"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "pretiō"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "pretiōsus"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*per-",
        "id": "before"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "*pretjom"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *pretjom",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*próti",
        "4": "*pr-é-ti ~ *pr-ó-ti"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *pr-é-ti ~ *pr-ó-ti",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sla-pro",
        "2": "*protivъ",
        "t": "contrary, against"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Slavic *protivъ (“contrary, against”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "πρός"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek πρός (prós)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "प्रति",
        "t": "towards, near; against"
      },
      "expansion": "Sanskrit प्रति (prati, “towards, near; against”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pretiī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretia",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretiī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretiōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretiō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretiīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretia",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretiō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretiīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretia",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pretium<2>"
      },
      "expansion": "pretium n (genitive pretiī or pretī); second declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pretium<2>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "14 19 23 16 19 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin neuter nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 15 20 22 22 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 16 22 22 22 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "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?",
          "ref": "c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.1.2",
          "text": "Quem mihi dabis quī aliquod pretium temporī pōnat, quī diem aestimet, quī intellegat sē cotīdiē morī?",
          "translation": "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?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "worth, price, value, cost"
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "worth",
          "worth"
        ],
        [
          "price",
          "price"
        ],
        [
          "value",
          "value"
        ],
        [
          "cost",
          "cost"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
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    },
    {
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          "_dis": "14 19 23 16 19 9",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 15 20 22 22 6",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 16 22 22 22 3",
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
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        "pay, hire, wage"
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          "pay",
          "pay"
        ],
        [
          "hire",
          "hire"
        ],
        [
          "wage",
          "wage"
        ]
      ],
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        {
          "word": "praemium"
        },
        {
          "word": "stīpendium"
        },
        {
          "word": "commodum"
        },
        {
          "word": "mercēs"
        }
      ],
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        "neuter"
      ]
    },
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "14 19 23 16 19 9",
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        },
        {
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 16 22 22 22 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "reward"
      ],
      "id": "en-pretium-la-noun-dpb~-E8m",
      "links": [
        [
          "reward",
          "reward"
        ]
      ],
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        {
          "word": "praemium"
        },
        {
          "word": "datum"
        },
        {
          "word": "dōnum"
        },
        {
          "word": "oblātiō"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "14 19 23 16 19 9",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 15 20 22 22 6",
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 16 22 22 22 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "ransom"
      ],
      "id": "en-pretium-la-noun-lt~FvtvU",
      "links": [
        [
          "ransom",
          "ransom"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "14 19 23 16 19 9",
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        },
        {
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 16 22 22 22 3",
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          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "bribe"
      ],
      "id": "en-pretium-la-noun-~OBzJODn",
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          "bribe",
          "bribe"
        ]
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        {
          "word": "praemium"
        }
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        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "punishment"
      ],
      "id": "en-pretium-la-noun-b7d48KWB",
      "links": [
        [
          "punishment",
          "punishment"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pūnītiō"
        },
        {
          "word": "sānctiō"
        },
        {
          "word": "poena"
        },
        {
          "word": "supplicium"
        },
        {
          "word": "exemplum"
        },
        {
          "word": "vindicātiō"
        },
        {
          "word": "vindicta"
        },
        {
          "word": "animadversus"
        },
        {
          "word": "malum"
        },
        {
          "word": "mercēs"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈprɛ.ti.ũː]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈprɛt.t͡si.um]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pretium"
}
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    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin neuter nouns",
    "Latin neuter nouns in the second declension",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin second declension nouns",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
    "Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (before)",
    "Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "appretiō"
    },
    {
      "word": "manupretium"
    },
    {
      "word": "pretiō"
    },
    {
      "word": "pretiōsus"
    }
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        "genitive"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "pretī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
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        "table-tags"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretium",
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      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretia",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretiī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "pretī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "pretiōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretiō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretiīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretia",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretiō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretiīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretia",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pretium<2>"
      },
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    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pretium<2>"
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "english": "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?",
          "ref": "c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.1.2",
          "text": "Quem mihi dabis quī aliquod pretium temporī pōnat, quī diem aestimet, quī intellegat sē cotīdiē morī?",
          "translation": "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?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "worth, price, value, cost"
      ],
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        [
          "worth",
          "worth"
        ],
        [
          "price",
          "price"
        ],
        [
          "value",
          "value"
        ],
        [
          "cost",
          "cost"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "pay, hire, wage"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pay",
          "pay"
        ],
        [
          "hire",
          "hire"
        ],
        [
          "wage",
          "wage"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "praemium"
        },
        {
          "word": "stīpendium"
        },
        {
          "word": "commodum"
        },
        {
          "word": "mercēs"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "reward"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "reward",
          "reward"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "praemium"
        },
        {
          "word": "datum"
        },
        {
          "word": "dōnum"
        },
        {
          "word": "oblātiō"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "ransom"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ransom",
          "ransom"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "bribe"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bribe",
          "bribe"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "praemium"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "punishment"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "punishment",
          "punishment"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pūnītiō"
        },
        {
          "word": "sānctiō"
        },
        {
          "word": "poena"
        },
        {
          "word": "supplicium"
        },
        {
          "word": "exemplum"
        },
        {
          "word": "vindicātiō"
        },
        {
          "word": "vindicta"
        },
        {
          "word": "animadversus"
        },
        {
          "word": "malum"
        },
        {
          "word": "mercēs"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈprɛ.ti.ũː]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈprɛt.t͡si.um]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pretium"
}

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