prix

Borrowed from French prix, from Old French pris. Compare English price.

• Hyphenation: prix

(singular number):

• enPR: prē
• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /pɹiː/

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• (General American, Canada, Scotland) IPA^(key): /pɹi/
• (India) IPA^(key): /pɾiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophone: pre

(plural number, if differentiated):

• enPR: prēz
• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /pɹiːz/
• (General American, Canada, Scotland) IPA^(key): /pɹiz/
• (India) IPA^(key): /pɾiːz/

• Rhymes: -iːz
• Homophone: pres

prix (plural prix)

1. Synonym of prize.

• “prix”, in Urban Dictionary, launched 1999.
• “prix, n.”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “prix, n.”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes IV (P–Simulant), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 4739, column 3.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “prix, n.”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 4739, column 3.

Inherited from Old French pris, from Latin pretium (“price, reward”), from Proto-Indo-European *préti (“back”). Compare précieux.

• IPA^(key): /pʁi/
• Hyphenation: prix

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• Homophones: prie, prient, pries, pris, prit, prît
• Hyphenation: prix

prix m (invariable)

1. prize

   Gagnez un des trois prix en argent de 5000$ avec le concours Acmeconc.

   Win one of three cash prizes worth $5,000 in the Acmeconc competition.

2. price

   Ils vont augmenter leurs prix et dire que c'est ainsi que le système fonctionne.

   They're only going to raise their prices and say that's how it goes.

• Haitian Creole: pri
• → Rade: pri

• “prix”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Inherited from Old French pris, from Latin pretium (“price, reward”), from Proto-Indo-European *préti (“back”).

prix m (plural prix)

1. (Jersey) price