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English word origin

Etymology of cost

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto

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The source reports below are imported and unreviewed by *SET-U. Separate numbered origins and differing source variants are preserved; agreement within this extraction is not independent corroboration.

Source etymology 1

Original entry ↗
verb

To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price. · To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of. · To require to be borne or suffered; to cause. · To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

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Source etymology 2

Original entry ↗
noun

Amount of money (or time, etc.) that is required or used. · A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti Proto-Italic *staējō Proto-Italic *staēō Proto-Italic *komstaēō Latin cōnstō Medieval Latin cōstō Old French costerbor. Middle English costendeverb. Middle English cost English cost Inherited from Middle English cost (noun), deverbal from costen (“to cost”, verb).

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Source etymology 3

Original entry ↗
verb

To calculate or estimate costs (such as expenses, or a price).

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti Proto-Italic *staējō Proto-Italic *staēō Proto-Italic *komstaēō Latin cōnstō Medieval Latin cōstō Old French costerbor. Middle English costendeverb. Middle English cost English costdenom. English cost Denominal verb from cost (“amount of money required or used”, noun).

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Source etymology 4

Original entry ↗
noun

Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance. · Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

From Middle English cost, from Old English cost (“option, choice, possibility, manner, way, condition”), from Old Norse kostr (“choice, opportunity, chance, condition, state, quality”), from Proto-Germanic *kustuz (“choice, trial”) (or Proto-Germanic *kustiz (“choice, trial”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus (“to enjoy, taste”). Cognate with Icelandic kostur, German dialectal Kust (“taste, flavour”), Dutch kust (“choice, choosing”), North Frisian kest (“choice, estimation, virtue”), West Frisian kêst (“article of law, statute”), Old English cyst (“free-will, choice, election, the best of anything, the choicest, picked host, moral excellence, virtue, goodness, generosity, munificence”), Latin gustus (“taste”). Doublet of gusto, and related to choose.

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Source etymology 5

Original entry ↗
noun

A rib; a side. · A cottise.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

From Middle English coste, from Old French coste, from Latin costa. Doublet of coast and cuesta.

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