pretiumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈprɛ.ti.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈprɛt.t͡si.um]

名詞

pretium n (genitive pretiī or pretī); second declension

1. worth, price, value, cost
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.1.2:

     Quem mihi dabis quī aliquod pretium temporī pōnat, quī diem aestimet, quī intellegat sē cotīdiē morī?

     What man can you show me who places any value on [his] time, who can reckon the worth of a day, who understands himself to be dying every day?

2. pay, hire, wage

   Synonyms: praemium, stīpendium, commodum, mercēs

3. reward

   Synonyms: praemium, datum, dōnum, oblātiō

4. ransom
5. bribe

   Synonym: praemium

6. punishment

   Synonyms: pūnītiō, sānctiō, poena, supplicium, exemplum, vindicātiō, vindicta, animadversus, malum, mercēs

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

派生語

派生した語

参照

Further reading

• “pretium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pretium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "pretium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “pretium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • it is worth while: operae pretium est (c. Inf.)
    
  • to fix a price for a thing: pretium alicui rei statuere, constituere (Att. 13. 22)
    
  • (ambiguous) to buy cheaply: parvo, vili pretio or bene emere
    
  • (ambiguous) to restore prisoners without ransom: captivos sine pretio reddere
    
• Buchi, Éva; Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008–), “*/ˈprɛti-u/”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.