English
rate
Rate comes from Old French rate, from Medieval Latin rata, from Latin prō ratā parte ‘according to a fixed part’, from reor ‘to reckon’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂reh₁-‘to think’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*rēōr‘to reckon’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEreoras rērī‘to think, deem, reckon’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEratus‘fixed’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEprō ratā parte‘according to a fixed part’
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500rata
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400rate
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500rate
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1591–1595rate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
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- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂reh₁-‘to think’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*rēōr‘to reckon’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEreoras rērī‘to think, deem, reckon’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEratus‘fixed’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEprō ratā parte‘according to a fixed part’
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500rata
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400rate
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500rate
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1591–1595rate
Earliest quotation: c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet: “There shall no figure at such rate be set,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- ‘to put together’
order, art, ready, article, army, artist, arm, ordinary, alarm, harmony, armor, coordination, arthritis, rational, anarchy, coordinate, arithmetic, harmonic, ornament, artisan, ordination, inertia, harmonious, articulate, inert, subordinate, armament, adorn, articulation, aristocratic, armadillo, harmonize, ordinal, rta, ornate, artifice, ration, ordinator, archon, rime, 78 more
through Latin reor ‘think, deem, judge, estimate", originally…’
through Latin ratus ‘fixed’
Today it means
noun The worth of something; value.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₂reh₁- / rate