praemium

See also: præmium

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

  1. profit derived from booty
  2. profit, advantage, prerogative, distinction
    Synonyms: commodum, profectus, usus, commoditās
    Synonyms: incommodum, detrimentum
  3. prize, reward, recompense
    Synonyms: mercēs, stīpendium, pretium, datum, donum, oblātiō, datiō, commodum
  4. (figuratively), the ironical sense of a reward, etc., as a desired thought, feeling, result or outcome
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.32-33:
      “[...] sōlāne perpetuā maerēns carpēre iuventā,
      nec dulcis nātōs, Veneris nec praemia nōris?”
      “[...] [will you] waste away alone, sorrowful all throughout your youth, never to have known sweet children, nor the rewards of Venus?”
      (That is, the pleasures of sexual love. Syncopation: nōris = nōveris. Translations vary – Mackail, 1885: “love’s bounty”; Knight, 1956: “all that Venus gives”; Mandelbaum, 1971: “the soft rewards”; Fitzgerald, 1981: “the crown of joy that Venus brings”; West, 1990: “the rewards of love”; Lombardo, 2005: “love’s joys”; Fagles, 2006: “all the gifts of love”; Ahl, 2007: “joys Venus offers, delights that she yields”.)
    • Spinoza, Ethica Liber V:
      Beatitudo non est virtutis praemium, sed ipsa virtus.
      Happiness is not a reward of virtue, but is a virtue itself.
  1. bribe, bribery
    Synonym: pretium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative praemium praemia
Genitive praemiī
praemī1		 praemiōrum
Dative praemiō praemiīs
Accusative praemium praemia
Ablative praemiō praemiīs
Vocative praemium praemia

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
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