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pretio
pretio
Latin
Verb
pretiō (present infinitive pretiāre, perfect active pretiāvī, supine pretiātum); first conjugation
- (Late Latin) I esteem, I prize, I value (hold in high regard, consider valuable)
- (Medieval Latin) I appraise, I assess, I value (estimate the worth of, set a price for)
Conjugation
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References
- prĕtĭo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- PRETIARE in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
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(ambiguous) to buy cheaply: parvo, vili pretio or bene emere
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(ambiguous) to restore prisoners without ransom: captivos sine pretio reddere
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(ambiguous) to buy cheaply: parvo, vili pretio or bene emere
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “prĕtĭo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 1,236/1.
- “pretiare” on pages 844–5 of Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)
Etymology 2
Regularly declined forms of pretium.
Noun
pretiō n