Priced

How to spell priced

6 letters · 1 syllable

How to pronounce priced

What does priced mean?

1. verbSet or assigned a particular cost to something for sale.
2. adjectiveHaving a cost set at a stated level or amount.

Priced in a sentence

• verb

  The agent priced the flat far above what buyers were willing to pay.

• adjective

  The reasonably priced menu drew a steady lunchtime crowd.

• verb

  The shop priced every item before the weekend sale.

• adjective

  Luxury cars are priced well beyond the budget of most families.

Where does priced come from?

Language of origin: Latin

This is the past form of the verb 'price', which traces back to the Latin noun pretium, meaning 'a price, value, money paid, or reward'. From Latin it passed into Old French as 'pris' or 'preis', carrying the senses of both 'price' and 'prize', and Anglo-Norman speakers brought it into English in the 1200s. For a long time 'price', 'prize', and 'praise' were tangled together as a single cluster of words, since esteeming something and putting a value on it were closely linked ideas; they only separated into distinct spellings and meanings over later centuries. By the 1500s 'price' had settled as the verb meaning 'to fix the cost of something', and adding the regular -ed ending produced 'priced'. The shared pretium ancestry is why 'priced' and 'prized' can feel so similar, even though one is about cost and the other about value held dear.

How the word is built

• price (value, cost)
• -ed (past tense / past participle suffix)