manupretium

Latin

Alternative forms

• manipretium

Etymology

From manus +‎ pretium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ma.nuːˈpre.ti.um/, [mänuːˈprɛt̪iʊ̃ˑ] or IPA^(key): /ma.nuˈpre.ti.um/, [mänʊˈprɛt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ma.nuˈpret.t͡si.um/, [mänuˈprɛt̪ː͡s̪ium]
• The length of the vowel in the second syllable is usually taken to be long. The word is attested only once in verse: it occurs in a line of iambic senarius in Plautus' Menaechmi which can scan with either length (if short, as – — u — | x || uu u uu | u — u —; if long, as — — u — | x || uu u — | uu — u —). Morphologically, a long vowel can be easily explained by taking the word as a univerbation of a phrase manū pretium, where the first element is the ablative singular form manū (compare manūmittō). However, manus also formed regular compounds with a short vowel, such as manufestus; the u here was the "sonus medius" that developed from short u before a labial consonant, as shown by the later variant manifestus, and manupretium likewise has a variant manipretium, which would not be expected to develop from a form with long ū.

Noun

manū̆pretium n (genitive manū̆pretiī or manū̆pretī); second declension

1. pay, wages
2. reward
3. workmanship
   • c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Menaechmi 544, (iambic senarius):

     Fīa͞t. cĕdo‿a͞urum, ĕgŏ mănū̆prĕtĭu͞m dăbō.

     • 1912 translation by Henry Thomas Riley

       Be it so. Give me the gold; I'll find the price of the workmanship.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	manū̆pretium	manū̆pretia
genitive	manū̆pretiī manū̆pretī1	manū̆pretiōrum
dative	manū̆pretiō	manū̆pretiīs
accusative	manū̆pretium	manū̆pretia
ablative	manū̆pretiō	manū̆pretiīs
vocative	manū̆pretium	manū̆pretia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• manū̆pretiārius
• manū̆pretiōsus

References

• “manupretium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “manupretium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• manupretium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• manupretium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “manupretium” on page 1,075/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)