Latin

Noun

pretium n ‎(genitive pretiī or pretī); second declension

1. worth, price, value, cost
2. pay, hire, wage, reward
3. ransom
4. bribe
5. punishment

Declension

Second declension.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• adpretiō, appretiō
• impretiābilis
• manupretium
• pretiō
• pretiōsus

Related terms

• pretiōsē
• pretiōsitās

Descendants

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pretium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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