different between payment vs cost

English

Etymology

From Old French paiement. Equivalent to pay +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• enPR: p??m?nt, IPA^(key): /?pe?m?nt/
• Hyphenation: pay?ment

Noun

payment (countable and uncountable, plural payments)

1. (uncountable) The act of paying.
2. (countable) A sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services.

See also

• scot

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• payment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?st/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?st/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /?k?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle English costen, from Old French coster, couster (“to cost”), from Medieval Latin c?st?, from Latin c?nst? (“stand together”).

Verb

cost (third-person singular simple present costs, present participle costing, simple past and past participle cost or costed)

1. To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.

   • Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].

2. To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
3. To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
   • 1977, Star Wars

     LUKE: "That little droid is going to cost me a lot of trouble."

4. To calculate or estimate a price.

Usage notes

The past tense and past participle is cost in the sense of "this computer cost me £600", but costed in the sense of 'calculated', "the project was costed at $1 million."

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English cost, coust, from costen (“to cost”), from the same source as above.

Noun

cost (countable and uncountable, plural costs)

1. Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.

2. A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.

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Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English cost, from Old English cost (“option, choice, possibility, manner, way, condition”), from Old Norse kostr (“choice, opportunity, chance, condition, state, quality”), from Proto-Germanic *kustuz (“choice, trial”) (or Proto-Germanic *kustiz (“choice, trial”)), from Proto-Indo-European *?éwstus (“to enjoy, taste”).

Cognate with Icelandic kostur, German dialectal Kust (“taste, flavour”), Dutch kust (“choice, choosing”), North Frisian kest (“choice, estimation, virtue”), West Frisian kêst (“article of law, statute”), Old English cyst (“free-will, choice, election, the best of anything, the choicest, picked host, moral excellence, virtue, goodness, generosity, munificence”), Latin gustus (“taste”). Related to choose. Doublet of gusto.

Noun

cost (plural costs)

1. (obsolete) Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.
2. Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.

Derived terms

• at all costs

Related terms

• costen
• costning
• needs-cost

Etymology 4

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French coste, from Latin costa. Doublet of coast and cuesta.

Noun

cost (plural costs)

1. (obsolete) A rib; a side.

   • betwixt the costs of a ship

2. (heraldry) A cottise.

Anagrams

• C.O.T.S., COTS, CSTO, CTOs, OCTS, OSTC, Scot, Scot., TOCs, cots, scot

Catalan

Noun

cost m (plural costs or costos)

1. cost

Derived terms

• preu de cost

Related terms

• costar

Manx

Noun

cost m (genitive singular cost, plural costyn)

1. charge (monetary)

Derived terms

• costal

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kust-, from Proto-Indo-European *?ews- (“to choose”).

Akin to Old Saxon kost?n (“to try, tempt”), Old High German kost?n (“to taste, test, try by tasting”) (German kosten), Icelandic kosta (“to try, tempt”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (kustus, “test”), Old English cystan (“to spend, get the value of, procure”), Old English cyst (“proof, test, trial; choice”), ??osan (“to choose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kost/

Noun

cost m

1. option, choice; possibility
2. condition, manner, way

Declension

Adjective

cost

1. chosen, choice
2. tried, proven; excellent

Declension

Old French

Etymology

From Latin constare, present infinitive of consto (“I stand firm (at a price)”).

Noun

cost m (oblique plural coz or cotz, nominative singular coz or cotz, nominative plural cost)

1. cost; financial outlay

Related terms

• coster

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kost]

Etymology 1

Verb

cost

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of costa

Etymology 2

Back-formation from costa

Noun

cost n (uncountable)

1. cost

Declension

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English cost.

Noun

cost m or f (plural costau)

1. cost
2. expense

Mutation