From Middle English price, borrowed from Old French pris, preis, from Latin pretium; compare praise, precious, appraise, appreciate, depreciate, etc.

• (RP, America) enPR: prīs, IPA: /pɹaɪs/
• (SSB) IPA: /pɹɑjs/
• (Canadian raising) IPA: /pɹʌɪs/

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.

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

• French: prix
• German: Preis
• Italian: prezzo
• Portuguese: preço
• Russian: цена́
• Spanish: precio

• French: prix
• German: Preis
• Italian: prezzo
• Portuguese: preço
• Russian: цена́
• Spanish: precio

• German: Wert

price (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, “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.

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

   to price eggs

• German: schätzen, den Preis festsetzen
• Italian: stimare, valutare
• Portuguese: avaliar, orçar
• Russian: оце́нивать

1. Surname, anglicized from ap Rhys.
2. A placename:
   1. A place in USA:
      1. An unincorporated community in Queen Anne's County, Maryland.
      2. A twp in Monroe County, Pennsylvania.
      3. An unincorporated community in Rusk County, Texas.
      4. A city/county seat in Carbon County, Utah.
      5. An unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia.
      6. A town in Langlade County, Wisconsin.
      7. An unincorporated community in Garfield, Jackson County.
   2. A village municipality in La Mitis.
   3. A town in Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.
   4. Ellipsis of Price County