Etymograph

English

pricemaker

From price + maker.

A compound of price + maker

Proto-Indo-European *per- ‘in front’

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Proto-Italic *pretjom

Latin pretium ‘worth’

Old French pris

Middle English price ‘price’

English price

Old English macian ‘to perform or carry out (a miracle)’

Middle English maken ‘to make or create’

Middle English maker ‘God as creator of all’

English maker

Today it means

noun A person who determines the odds to be offered to bettors.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “pricemaker”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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