different between price vs accusation

English

Alternative forms

• prize (obsolete) [16th–19th c.]

Etymology

From Middle English price (“price, prize, value, excellence”), borrowed from Old French pris, preis, from Latin pretium (“worth, price, money spent, wages, reward”); compare praise, precious, appraise, appreciate, depreciate, etc.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?s
• (UK, US): enPR: pr?s, IPA^(key): /p?a?s/
• (Canadian raising): IPA^(key): /p???s/

Noun

price (plural prices)

1. The cost required to gain possession of something.
2. The cost of an action or deed.

3. Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Proverbs xxxi. 10

     Her price is far above rubies.

   • new treasures still, of countless price

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Irish: praghas

Translations

Verb

price (third-person singular simple present prices, present participle pricing, simple past and past participle priced)

1. (transitive) To determine the monetary value of (an item); to put a price on.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To pay the price of; to make reparation for.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:

     Thou damned wight, / The author of this fact, we here behold, / What iustice can but iudge against thee right, / With thine owne bloud to price his bloud, here shed in sight.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
4. (transitive, colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.

   to price eggs

Derived terms

• budget-priced

Translations

Further reading

• price in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• price in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Cripe, recip.

Latin

Noun

price

1. ablative singular of prex

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) accusasiowne (15th century)
• (obsolete) accusacion (15th century)

Etymology

First attested in the late 14th century. From Middle English accusacion, borrowed from Old French acusacion (French accusation), from Latin acc?s?ti? (“accusation, indictment”), from acc?s? (“blame, accuse”). Doublet of accusatio. More at accuse. Equivalent to accuse +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æk.j?.?ze?.??n/, /?æk.j?.?ze?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

accusation (countable and uncountable, plural accusations)

1. The act of accusing.
2. (law) A formal charge brought against a person in a court of law.
3. An allegation.

Synonyms

• allegation
• assertion
• censure
• charge
• crimination
• impeachment

Translations

Anagrams

• anacoustic

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin acc?s?ti?, acc?s?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ky.za.sj??/

Noun

accusation f (plural accusations)

1. accusation

Derived terms

• chef d'accusation

Related terms

• accuser

References

• “accusation” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).

Further reading

• “accusation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

accusation (plural accusationes)

1. accusation