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Latin minimal pairs, distinguished only by the length of the vowel in an unstressed non-last syllable
I'm thinking about which diacritics to use in Latin to give pronunciation hints without writing the length of all the vowels (which I find very noisy).
My main aim is to avoid homographs that are not ...
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Which vowel lengths and stressed syllables are marked in the Vatican Lexicon?
I noticed that the following are marked in the Parvum verborum novatorum léxicum:
the (ante)penultimate vowel when it is long by nature (ovorum intrīta),
the antepenultimate syllable when it is ...
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Are there suggested cases that Latin poets deliberately sometimes used stress (accent) to induce certain effect?
Latin Hexameter poetry, like Greek, is quantity based. When we consider the rhythm, we have ictus at the beginning of each of the six feet. However Latin is also a stress-based language which fact ...
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About stress marks and conventions
I've followed an advice about studying stress marks. I find very elegant putting all the breves and macrons. But, in differents dictionaries several conventions are used. For example, the word consŭl, ...
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Pronunciation in medical terminology
I have been arguing about this with quite a number of people and it seems we all cannot find the answer (med students, duh😅)
My question is: Where should the stress on words like mastoideus and ...
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What is the evidence for preantepenultimate stress?
I've seen it mentioned before that, in Plautus's era, words of the form LLLX (such as gĕnĕrĭbŭs) would be stressed on the fourth syllable from the end. In other words, géneribus rather than Classical ...
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Where to place accent after applying diaeresis?
So I have the following elegiac couplet:
κεἱ ψυχή τε πέρην ἐπικεῖται, ἔσχατη ἆσσον,
μεῖνα δ' ἔγωγ’ ἔμπης, ἰσχναΐνων κραδίην.
Theoretically, the latter hemistich in the second verse should have the ...
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When did Old Latin develop initial stress?
The stress system of Classical Latin is thought to have been preceded by a period of fixed initial stress. When did that earlier system arise, replacing the inherited Proto-Indo-European mobile accent?...
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How to pronounce "Roterodamus"?
The adjective roterodamus means “of Rotterdam” (the city in Holland). To lovers of Latin, unless they entertain an unusual interest in Dutch geography, the word is familiar probably primarily because ...
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Does Greek accent ever affect Latin stress?
Latin borrowed a number of words, including names, from Greek.
Are there any instances where the stress in Latin is not where expected but follows the Greek accent instead?
My impression was always ...
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Stress of presbyterum, presbytero
Salvete,
Where is the stress in the various forms of presbyter?
Would I be correct with the following? (I have placed the apostrophe before the stressed syllable.)
Gratias vobis ago
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Vowel shortening before another vowel: Exceptions
I am rather ashamed to admit that I used to pronounce Alexandrea (or Alexandria, cf. Ἀλεξάνδρεια) incorrectly in Latin, that is I mistakenly applied the famous rule "vocalis ante vocalem ...
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How is the word "Eboracum" stressed in Latin?
John Walker in his work A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names suggests pronouncing it as "Ebóracum":
Are there any other sources of this word's pronunciation?...
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How do we know how -iī and -iit perfects were stressed?
The question Are there exceptions to the Latin stress rules? has an answer by Joel Derfner saying that the first-person singular perfect forms dormiī, audiī, veniī (for dormīvī, audīvī, venīvī) have ...
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How were Greek patronymics stressed in Latin?
According to Wikipedia, the Scipios (as in Africanus) were known collectively as the Scīpiadae rather than the Scīpionēs. This was a rather poetic Greek way to say "sons of Scipio", as in the Atreïdae ...
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