## Meanings
1. A reward given to the winner of a contest, competition, or lottery.
2. Something valuable that you want to win or achieve.
3. To value something very highly.

## Examples
- She won first prize in the painting competition.
- For him, the championship title was the ultimate prize.
- He prizes the watch his grandfather gave him.

## Derived Forms
- disprize
- foreprize
- outprize
- overprize
- prizable
- prizer
- underprize
- unprizable
- unprized

## Related Forms
- price
- prise

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: prise
- Root: prēndō

## Etymology
From Middle English prise, from Old French prise (“a taking, capture, a seizure, a thing seized, a prize, booty, also hold, purchase”), past participle of prendre (“to take, to capture”), from Latin prēndere (“to take, seize”); see prehend. Compare prison, apprise, comprise, enterprise, purprise, reprisal, surprise, etc. Doublet of prise.

## AI Etymology
Prize comes from Middle English prise, from Old French prise (“a taking, capture, a seizure, a thing seized, a prize, booty, also hold, purchase”), past participle of prendre (“to take, to capture”), from Latin prēndere (“to take, seize”); see prehend. Compare prison, apprise, comprise, enterprise, purprise, reprisal, surprise, etc. Doublet of prise. In present-day English it covers a reward given to the winner of a contest, competition, or lottery, something valuable that you want to win or achieve, and to value something very highly. The wider family includes derived forms such as disprize, foreprize, outprize, overprize, prizable and related forms such as price, prise.

## Topics
- Sports & Fitness

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