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Definition cost

Etymology 1

From Middle English costen, from Old French coster, couster (“to cost”), from Medieval Latin costare, from Latin constare (“stand together, stand at, cost”), from com- + stare (“stand”).

Verb

cost (third-person singular simple present costs, present participle costing, simple past and past participle cost or costed)

1. To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
2. To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
3. To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
4. To calculate or estimate a price.

Etymology 2

From Middle English cost, coust, from costen (“to cost”), see below.

Noun

cost (countable and uncountable, plural costs)

1. Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
2. A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.

Etymology 3

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 *?éwstus (“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”). Related to choose.

Noun

cost (plural costs)

1. (obsolete) Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.
2. Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.

Etymology 4

From Old French coste, from Latin costa.

Noun

cost (plural costs)

1. (obsolete) A rib; a side.
2. (heraldry) A cottise.

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