manupretium

Etymology
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Pronunciation

 * 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 ). However, also formed regular compounds with a short vowel, such as ; the u here was the "sonus medius" that developed from short u before a labial consonant, as shown by the later variant, and manupretium likewise has a variant , which would not be expected to develop from a form with long ū.
 * 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 ). However, also formed regular compounds with a short vowel, such as ; the u here was the "sonus medius" that developed from short u before a labial consonant, as shown by the later variant, and manupretium likewise has a variant , which would not be expected to develop from a form with long ū.

Noun

 * 1) pay, wages
 * 2) reward
 * 3) workmanship