Costed

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. The past and past participle form of the verb meaning to calculate the price or expense of something
2. Used to describe the action of determining how much something will require in terms of money in the past
3. Refers to the completed act of estimating or assigning a monetary value to an item or service

Etymology: The verb "cost" travelled a long way to reach English. Its ancestor was the Latin "constare," meaning "to stand firm" or "to stand together," as in standing at a fixed price. Medieval Latin shortened it to "costare," which passed into Old French as "coster," and English borrowed that French verb in the Middle Ages as "costen." Over time the sense shifted from the physical idea of standing at a certain level to the commercial idea of a price that must be paid. English later created a noun, "cost," from the verb, meaning the amount of money required for something. Then the noun became a verb again in a new form: "cost" itself was reused as a base for a fresh verb, "to cost," which meant to set a price on something. Since the simple past and past participle of that verb are formed regularly, "costed" is the form used for a completed act of pricing.

Synonyms: priced, valued, estimated, charged, appraised

Antonyms: gave, donated, contributed, provided, offered