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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
im- (“not”) + pretiāre, pretiō (“to appraise, to valuate”) + -bilis (“-able”)
Pronunciation
Adjective
impretiābilis (neuter impretiābile); third-declension two-termination adjective
- (Late Latin) priceless, invaluable, inestimable (of incalculable value, exceeding or surpassing any price)
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
References
- “imprĕtĭābĭlis (inp-)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- IMPRETIABILIS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- imprĕtĭābĭlis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 785/3.
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “impretiabilis”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 515/2
- impretiabilis in Ramminger, Johann (2024 May 9 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016