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pretium price
pretium is a Latin Noun that primarily means price.
Definitions for pretium
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
price, value, reward
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
(a) A reward, recompense, prize. (b) a penalty, punishment, price. (c) (in non-committal or equivocal sense) a requital.
- 2
(w. gen.) Something which repays or compensates for (something else), a return; ~ium morae, a return for time spent. (b) operae-ium, something that repays one's trouble, something worth while; operae ~ium esse (+inf.), to be worth while (to do something). (c) (absol.) something to be gained, an advantage; ~ium esse (+inf.), to be worth while (to do something).
- 3
Value, worth (esp. monetary); ~ium facere, to give value (to); ad nullum ~Ium sui redigi, to lose one's value, become worthless. (b) (in gen. of value, w. parui, minimi, etc.).
Sentences with pretium
Latin to English
Omnia Rōmae cum pretiō. (Juvenal, Satires III.183-184)Compare Everything is available in Rome - for a price!
Vendat oleum, si pretium habeat, vinum, frumentum quod supersit vendat; boves, vetulos armenta delicula, oves deliculas, lanam, pelles, plostrum vetus, ferramenta vetera, servum senem, servum morbosum, et siquid aliut supersit vendat. Patrem familias vendacem, non emacem esse oportet. (Id., II,7)Compare Sell the oil, if it fetches a good price, sell whatever excess there be of wine and grain; sell off the worn-out oxen, defective cattle, defective sheep, wool, hides, the old wagon, old tools, the aged slave, the sickly slave, and all else that is of no use. The proprietor of an estate should be eager to sell, not to buy.
Carmine formosae, pretio avarae: gaudeat, ut digna est, versibus illa novis. (Elegiae, I, 7)Compare Beautiful girls are won by poetry, greedy girls by money: may (Neaera) enjoy these verses as she deserves.
In pretio pretium nunc est. dat census honores, census amicitias; pauper ubique iacet.Compare Nowadays nothing but money counts: fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.
Hic est ille situs cui nemo civis neque hostis quibit pro factis reddere opis pretium.Compare Here lies a man whom neither fellow citizen nor foe can ever properly repay for his exploits.
Nihil ars since materia, materiae etiam sine arte pretium est, ars summa materia uptima melior.Compare Without material art can do nothing; material without art does possess a certain value, while the perfection of art is better than the best material.
Ille vas magnus pretium nuper mercor.Compare He purchases that vessel lately at a high price.
Declension table for pretium
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | pretium | pretia |
| Gen. | pretiī | pretiōrum |
| Dat. | pretiō | pretiīs |
| Acc. | pretium | pretia |
| Abl. | pretiō | pretiīs |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 484.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1454.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 123.
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "pretium, pretiī (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/pretium-pretii.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 484.on page 484
