English → Latin
“value” in Latin
pretiumworth, price, value, cost; pay, hire, wage; rewardaestimātiōvaluation, estimation according to its worth, appraisal; assessment of damagedignitāsworth, worthiness, merit, desert; fitness, suitability; rank, status, standing, esteem, dignityvirtūsmanhood, manliness, virility; courage, valor, resoluteness, gallantry; virtue, goodnessparvussmall; little; puny; cheap; petty; trifling; ignorable; unimportantcōnstituōto place, put, locate, lay; to set up, establish, constitute, found; to build, erect, constructdīligōto esteem, prize, love, have regard, to delight in (something); to set apart by choosing, to single (something) out, to magnusgreat, large, big; (of things) vast, extensive, spacious (of physical size or quantity); great, grand, mighty, noble, lodūcōto lead, guide, conduct, lead away; to take; to draw, pullpendōto weigh, weigh out; to pay; to consider, ponder
The English word value itself goes back to Latin valeō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
value s.
PROP., pretium (with reference to an equivalent, especially in money. ☞ There is no authority for valor in this sense): aestimatio (in the opinion of men). The value of money, potestas pecuniarum (Gai. Dig. 13, 3, 4): to be of some value, pretium habere; in pretio esse; to be of great value, maximo esse pretio: to be of small value, pretii esse parvi, minimi: to be of no value, nullius esse pretii: of equal value, (res) ejusdem pretii (not valoris).
Figuratively, pretium (Cic.): dignitas (Plin., Gell.): virtus (Cic.). To attach great value to anything, multum tribuere alicui rei: magni aestimare aliquid; in magno honore habere aliquid: to set too high a value on one’s self, multum sibi tribuere magnifice de se sentire; nimium sibi tribuere.
value v.
To rate at a certain price, aestimare aliquid (with a genitive or ablative of the price, Cic.): aestimationem alicujus rei facere (Caes.) or habere (Cic.); pretium alicui rei statuere (Plaut.) or constituere (Cic.). To value highly, magni (not multi) or magno aestimare; magni facere, habere, ducere, pendere: to value lightly, parvi facere, aestimare, ducere, habere, pendere: to value as nothing, pro nihilo ducere, putare; nihili or non flocci facere; despicere et pro nihilo putare; contemnereet pro nihilo ducere; aestimare nihilo, pro nihilo, or nihil: to value more highly, pluris (not majoris) aestimare: to value less, minoris aestimare or pendere: to value equally, juxta aestimare (Sall., Cat., 2, 8); in pari laude utrumque ponere: to value one more than another, unum alteri praeponere, anteponere, and (vice versa) postponere, posthabere.
To esteem highly, diligere (aliquid in aliquo): diligere carumque habere. ☞ not aestimare alone in this sense; it must always have a genitive or ablative of the value; Vid :, also, “to VALUE highly,” above.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for value?
- The usual Latin words for “value” are pretium, aestimātiō, dignitās; also virtūs, parvus, cōnstituō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.