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Latin
Etymology
From prae- (“before”) + emō (“acquire, obtain”), i.e. "what one has got before or better than others".
Pronunciation
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.
- bribe, bribery
- Synonym: pretium
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
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