manupretium
Latin
Alternative forms
- manipretium
Etymology
From manus + pretium.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ma.nuːˈpre.ti.um/, [mänuːˈprɛt̪iʊ̃ˑ] or IPA(key): /ma.nuˈpre.ti.um/, [mänʊˈprɛt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (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
- pay, wages
- reward
- 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.
- 1912 translation by Henry Thomas Riley
- Fīa͞t. cĕdo‿a͞urum, ĕgŏ mănū̆prĕtĭu͞m dăbō.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | 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)