cheap Copy link • cheap: vīlis, e: cheaper provisions, annona vilior, Pl.: corn was cheaper, frumentum vilius erat, Cic. Fig.: our life would be c. in your esteem, tibi vilis vita esset nostra, Liv. Very c., pervīlis, Liv. Phr.: c. provisions, laxa annona, Liv.: things all at once became so c., tanta repente vilitas annonae secuta est, Cic.: to hold a thing c., aliquid parvi facere, pendere: v. to value.