Other forms: prices
The price is how much money you must give for something. The price of it, half price, at any price.
Price is what is asked, cost is what it takes to make or to have, and value is what it is worth — three words people use interchangeably and economists do not. At any price means whatever it takes, and at a price means it will not be cheap. Note price tag; price war; the price of fame; and that everyone has their price, which is cynical rather than economic.
1nounpriceHow much money you must give for something.
“The price of petrol has gone up again this month.”
2nouncostsWhat something costs you in another sense.
“Losing his friends was the price he paid for fame.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
price is an amount charged.
Also accepted in games: cost
Old French pris comes from Latin pretium, worth or reward. Praise, prize, precious and appreciate are the same word arriving by different routes, so a price is what a thing is praised at.
Latin
pretium — worth, price, money spent, wages, reward
Old French
pris
Middle English
price — price, prize, value, excellence
English, today
price
From Middle English price (“price, prize, value, excellence”), borrowed from Old French pris, preis, from Latin pretium (“worth, price, money spent, wages, reward”); compare praise, precious, appraise, appreciate, depreciate, etc.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA