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price
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)
- The cost required to gain possession of something.
- The cost of an action or deed.
- Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Proverbs xxxi. 10
- Her price is far above rubies.
- new treasures still, of countless price
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Proverbs xxxi. 10
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)
- (transitive) To determine the monetary value of (an item); to put a price on.
- (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.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:
- (transitive, obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
- (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
- ablative singular of prex
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penalty
English
Alternative forms
- pœnalty (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle French pénalité
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?n?lti/
- Hyphenation: pen?al?ty
Noun
penalty (plural penalties)
- A legal sentence.
- A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- Was it so irreconcilable, Warwick wondered, as still to peal out the curfew bell, which at nine o'clock at night had clamorously warned all negroes, slave or free, that it was unlawful for them to be abroad after that hour, under penalty of imprisonment or whipping?
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- (finance) A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
- In sports
- (soccer) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
- (ice hockey) A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.
Synonyms
- punition
- punishment
- sentence
Derived terms
Related terms
- penal
- penality (rare)
- penalize
Descendants
- ? Gulf Arabic: ?????? (balanti)
- ? Spanish: penalti
Translations
See also
- free kick
Anagrams
- a-plenty, aplenty, netplay
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English penalty.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pe?nal?ty
Noun
penalty m (plural penalty's, diminutive penalty'tje n)
- penalty kick
French
Alternative forms
- pénalty
Etymology
Borrowed from English penalty, itself a borrowing from French pénalité (thus a reborrowing). Doublet of pénalité.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe.nal.ti/
Noun
penalty m (plural penaltys or penalties)
- (sports) penalty, penalty kick
Further reading
- “penalty” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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