praemium
See also: præmium
Latin
Etymology
From prae- (“before”) + emō (“acquire, obtain”), i.e. "what one has got before or better than others".
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈprae̯.mi.um/, [ˈpräe̯miʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpre.mi.um/, [ˈprɛːmium]
Noun
praemium n (genitive praemiī or praemī); second declension
- profit derived from booty
- profit, advantage, prerogative, distinction
- Synonyms: commodum, profectus, usus, commoditās
- Synonyms: incommodum, detrimentum
- prize, reward, recompense
- Synonyms: mercēs, stīpendium, pretium, datum, donum, oblātiō, datiō, commodum
- Spinoza, Ethica Liber V:
- Beatitudo non est virtutis praemium, sed ipsa virtus.
- Happiness is not a reward of virtue, but is a virtue itself.
- Beatitudo non est virtutis praemium, sed ipsa virtus.
- bribe, bribery
- Synonym: pretium
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | praemium | praemia |
| Genitive | praemiī praemī1 | praemiōrum |
| Dative | praemiō | praemiīs |
| Accusative | praemium | praemia |
| Ablative | praemiō | praemiīs |
| Vocative | praemium | praemia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Asturian: premiu
- Catalan: premi
- Galician: premio
- Italian: premio
- Occitan: prèmi
- Portuguese: prémio, prêmio
- Sicilian: premiu
- Spanish: premio
- → Alemannic German: Breemi
- → Dutch: premie
- → English: premium
- → French: premium
- → German: Prämie
- → Hungarian: prémium
- → Norwegian: premie
- → Polish: premia
- → Russian: премия (premija)
- → Spanish: premium
- → Swedish: premium, premie
References
- “praemium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “praemium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- praemium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to remunerate (handsomely): praemiis (amplissimis, maximis) aliquem afficere
- to reward a man according to his deserts: meritum praemium alicui persolvere
- (to encourage) by offering a reward: praemium exponere or proponere
- to offer a prize (for the winner): praemium ponere
- to remunerate (handsomely): praemiis (amplissimis, maximis) aliquem afficere