different between price vs acerata

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

Latin

Adjective

acerata

1. nominative feminine singular of aceratus
2. nominative neuter plural of aceratus
3. accusative neuter plural of aceratus
4. vocative feminine singular of aceratus
5. vocative neuter plural of aceratus

Adjective

acerat?

1. ablative feminine singular of aceratus

Adjective

acer?ta

1. nominative feminine singular of acer?tus
2. nominative neuter plural of acer?tus
3. accusative neuter plural of acer?tus
4. vocative feminine singular of acer?tus
5. vocative neuter plural of acer?tus

Adjective

acer?t?

1. ablative feminine singular of acer?tus