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語源

From 中期英語 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.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈpɹaɪ̯s/
• (Canada, Canadian raising) IPA: /ˈpɹɐɪ̯s/, /ˈpɹɜɪ̯s/, /ˈpɹʌɪ̯s/, /ˈpɹəɪ̯s/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ˈpɹɑ̟ɪ̯s/, /ˈpɹɒ̈ɪ̯s/
• (Inland Southern 米国発音, General South African, /aɪ̯/-ungliding) IPA: /ˈpɹaːs/
• 韻: -aɪs
• ハイフネーション: price

名詞

price (plural prices)

1. The cost required to gain possession of something.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     We can afford no more at such a price.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.

2. The cost of an action or deed.

   I paid a high price for my folly.

   • 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn‎:

     It is difficult otherwise to explain the contradictions of [Chamberlain’s] policy, his failure to grasp any of the courses that were open to him. Like the mass of the people, he did not want to pay the price either of peace or of war.

3. Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs xxxi:10:

     Her price is far above rubies.

   • 1827, [John Keble], The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], →OCLC:

     new treasures still, of countless price

下位語

派生語

派生した語

• Bislama: praes
• → Irish: praghas

動詞

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) To find out what something costs

   We priced a few laptops before deciding which one to buy.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To pay the price of; to make reparation for.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     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.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.

   Synonyms: esteem, evaluate, worthen; see also Thesaurus:appraise

5. (transitive, colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.

   to price eggs

派生語

Further reading

• “price”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “price”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Cripe, recip.