## Meanings
1. The amount of money you must pay to buy something.
2. Something unpleasant that you must accept in order to get or do something.
3. To set or decide the price of something.

## Examples
- The price of gasoline has gone up again.
- Losing his free time was the price of his success.
- The store priced its new phones very high.

## Derived Forms
- bride-price
- budget-priced
- cut-price
- death-price
- fixed-price
- half-price
- microprice
- midprice
- misprice
- non-price
- nonprice
- outprice

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: price
- Root: pris
- Root: pretium

## Etymology
From Middle English 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.

## AI Etymology
Price comes from Middle English 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. In present-day English it covers the amount of money you must pay to buy something, something unpleasant that you must accept in order to get or do something, and to set or decide the price of something. The wider family includes derived forms such as bride-price, budget-priced, cut-price, death-price, fixed-price.

## Topics
- Money & Finance

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