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premium

/pˈɹimiəm/PREE-mee-uhm
/pˈɹimiəm/PREE-mee-uhm

Meaningsomething taken first; a prize

Common meaning: an extra payment

Other meanings: a reward

‘before’ + ‘to take’ → premium

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√AM‘take’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 15, p. 731 · scan
  2. Latinemō, ēmī, ēmptum‘to take’
  3. Englishpremium‘an extra payment’ · today

pre- also in: prefixprecedeprecisepredictpreface

mi also in: exemptpromptredeemperemptoryredemption

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin emō ‘to take; to buy’.

Did you know (Latin praemium is…): our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry PREMIUM, p. 464 · dictionary scan

Did you know (Latin emere first…): our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry emō, p. 643 · dictionary scan

Roots

Related words

exampleexemptperemptorypromptredeemredemption

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