Latin-English translations for pretiōsus

• costly
  a costly activity
  a costly error
• expensive
  an unnecessarily expensive choice of algorithm
• precious
  The crown had many precious gemstones.   This building work needs site access, and tell the city council that I dont care about a few lorry tyre ruts across their precious grass verge
  My precious daughter is to marry
  He spent hours painting the eyes of the portrait, which his fellow artists regarded as a bit precious
• valuable
  valuable gemstones
  a valuable friend; a valuable companion

Related words

• pretio
• appretio
• depretio
• manupretiosus
• pretiosus|pretiōsus