different between pillage vs prize
pillage
English
Etymology
From Old French pillage, from piller (“plunder”), from an unattested meaning of Late Latin pili?, probably a figurative use of Latin pil? (“I remove (hair)”), from pilus (“hair”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?l.?d?/, /?p?l.?d?/
- Rhymes: -?l?d?
Verb
pillage (third-person singular simple present pillages, present participle pillaging, simple past and past participle pillaged)
- (transitive, intransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
- 1911, Sabine Baring-Gould, Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe, Chapter VI: Cliff Castles—Continued,
- Archibald V. (1361-1397) was Count of Perigord. He was nominally under the lilies [France], but he pillaged indiscriminately in his county.
- 1911, Sabine Baring-Gould, Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe, Chapter VI: Cliff Castles—Continued,
Translations
Noun
pillage (countable and uncountable, plural pillages)
- The spoils of war.
- The act of pillaging.
- 2013, Zoë Marriage, Formal Peace and Informal War: Security and Development in Congo
- An employee at a brewery in Kinshasa rated the aftermath as more catastrophic to the company than the direct violence: It was more the consequences of the pillages that hit Bracongo – the poverty of the people, our friends who buy beer.
- 2013, Zoë Marriage, Formal Peace and Informal War: Security and Development in Congo
Synonyms
- (spoils of war): See Thesaurus:booty
Translations
French
Etymology
piller +? -age
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.ja?/
Noun
pillage m (plural pillages)
- pillage
Norman
Etymology
From Old French pillage.
Noun
pillage m (plural pillages)
- (Jersey) looting
Related terms
- pilleux (“looter”)
Old French
Noun
pillage m (oblique plural pillages, nominative singular pillages, nominative plural pillage)
- pillaging
Related terms
- piller
Descendants
- ? English: pillage
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prize
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English prise, from Old French prise (“a taking, capture, a seizure, a thing seized, a prize, booty, also hold, purchase”), past participle of prendre (“to take, to capture”), from Latin prendere (“to take, seize”); see prehend. Compare prison, apprise, comprise, enterprise, purprise, reprisal, surprise, etc.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?a?z/
- Rhymes: -a?z
- Homophones: pries, prise
Noun
prize (plural prizes)
- That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 4, Canto 4, p. 54,[1]
- […] wherefore he now begunne
- To challenge her anew, as his owne prize,
- Whom formerly he had in battell wonne,
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 4, Canto 4, p. 54,[1]
- (military, nautical) Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
- An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
- 1676, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, London: Henry Herringman, Act 5, p. 73,[2]
- I fought and conquer’d, yet have lost the prize.
- 1676, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, London: Henry Herringman, Act 5, p. 73,[2]
- That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
- 1928, Weston Jarvis, Jottings from an Active Life, London: Heath Cranton, p. 256,[3]
- Cecil Rhodes […] was never tired of impressing upon one that the fact of being an Englishman was “the greatest prize in the lottery of life,” and that it was that thought which always sustained him when he was troubled.
- 1928, Weston Jarvis, Jottings from an Active Life, London: Heath Cranton, p. 256,[3]
- Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Philippians 3.14,[4]
- I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Philippians 3.14,[4]
- (obsolete) A contest for a reward; competition.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 2,[5]
- Like one of two contending in a prize,
- That thinks he hath done well in people's eyes […]
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 2,[5]
- A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
- Synonym: prise
Usage notes
Do not confuse with price.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- prise
- price
Etymology 2
From Middle English prysen, borrowed from Old French priser (“to set a price or value on, esteem, value”), from pris (“price”), from Latin pretium (“price, value”), whence price; see also praise, a doublet. Compare appraise, apprize.
Verb
prize (third-person singular simple present prizes, present participle prizing, simple past and past participle prized)
- To consider highly valuable; to esteem.
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III, Scene 1,[6]
- […] I
- Beyond all limit of what else i’ the world
- Do love, prize, honour you.
- 1676, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, London: Henry Herringman, Act V, p. 83,[7]
- I pris’d your Person, but your Crown disdain.
- 2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus, London: Harvill Secker, Chapter 20, p. 167,[8]
- ‘ […] An old broken cup has no value. No one prizes it.’
- ‘I prize it. It’s my museum, not yours.’
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III, Scene 1,[6]
- (obsolete) To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.
- c. 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, Act III, Scene 2,[9]
- […] no life,
- I prize it not a straw, but for mine honour,
- 1611 King James Version of the Bible, Zechariah 11.13,[10]
- […] a goodly price that I was prized at.
- c. 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, Act III, Scene 2,[9]
- To move with a lever; to force up or open; to prise or pry.
- (obsolete) To compete in a prizefight.
Derived terms
- foreprize
- outprize
- overprize
- prizable
- prizer
- underprize
- unprizable
- unprized
Translations
Etymology 3
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Adjective
prize (not comparable)
- Having won a prize; award-winning.
- a prize vegetable
- first-rate; exceptional
- He was a prize fool.
Etymology 4
Alternative forms.
Noun
prize (plural prizes)
- Obsolete form of price. [16th–19th c.]
- 1777, Joshua Reynolds, in John Ingamells, John Edgcumbe (eds.), The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale 2000, p. 69:
- My prizes – for a head is thirty five Guineas – As far as the Knees seventy – and for a whole-length one hundred and fifty.
- 1777, Joshua Reynolds, in John Ingamells, John Edgcumbe (eds.), The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale 2000, p. 69:
Further reading
- prize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- prize in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- pizer, rezip
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