Online dictionary
Does anyone know of an online dictionary that pronounces the (Latin) word?
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Usque
Is the first u long or short? The Macronizer says short. Wiktionary says long. The etymology given by the OLD seems to suggest long.
View ArticleStressed syllable.. OBLIVISCOR
Which is the stressed syllable and how to know it? Oblíviscor or Oblivíscor? Thanks, folks!!
View ArticleAquilius
The OLD gives the first i of this family name as long. I thought the name was derived from aquila, in which case I'd expect the i to be short. Does anyone know anything about this? Is there some...
View ArticleReaction to the pronunciation of v/u.
Whenever I hear people object to the reconstructed pronunciation, the biggest issue is usually that they can't stomach the idea of v being pronounced as /w/. Is that sound somehow objectionable? It...
View ArticleHarvard's Latin Salutatory Address 2007
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47u6IJ2GVdM[/youtube]
View ArticleSpelling conventions in the usage of "-alis".
I have recently noticed something about a seeming shift in the way the adjectival suffix -alis was used over time. Earlier (that is, "Classical and earlier") formations such as aeternalis and nervalis...
View Article’Pronouncing’ long vs short vowels in your head while you read
Hello, To be completely honest, the main point of this post is to vent my frustration in the form of a poll, to make it look a bit more constructive, and to see if I’m the only one having this issue or...
View ArticleQuestion on convention of long vowels in poetry
Is it convention that all vowels followed by two consonants (even if in different words) are considered and marked long even if it's naturally short? If so, who conventioned it? Is it from the ancient...
View ArticleKnowing how to pronounce without first having read
If a Roman or anyone for that matter picked up a non macronised text and started reading it out loud, how would he know how to pronounce it? What I'm getting at is words like hic, without further...
View ArticleCharacter Ɛ
I am currently researching on the family name "Bacca", with apparent origin in northern Italy (Tyrol). In birth records ranging from 1615 to 1632 I have seen that this surname is also spelled this way:...
View ArticleDo you pronounce the the last vowel, which is long, as long or short in eg....
Hello! I'm in a quandary about how to pronounce words like, puellā (versus puella), Latīnē (versus Latīne) and so on. I asked my teacher, who is a very experienced Italian (although I wouldn't call him...
View ArticleVocābāmus, Amīcōrum. What's the pronunciation and rule?
I've just started learning (2 lectures in at uni), and I have some questions about accents and long/heavy syllables. The rule is, if the penult is long, accent that. But in my book (Swedish: Tidner,...
View ArticleEi (dat. sg.)
What's up with the pronunciation of that form? I've found it given as ei (diphthong), eī (I suppose that would be two syllables?) and even ēī in Plautus and Terence (I suspect that was perhaps actually...
View ArticleDe media prosodia
Heri, in Philomelæ Aroberto colloquio de media prosodia, eram. Doctrix suam hypothesin dixit, quae secunda prosodia non poterat stare in prima syllaba (sicut in prisca latinitate) . Sola composita...
View ArticleExtremely Late Latin
As anyone who has looked at original documents dating to 600‒1000 CE can attest, spelling mistakes proliferated in later Latin. They may appear random at first glance, but they turn out to be largely...
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D-caudata in Ganellus manuscript?
I keep coming across caudate Ds in the SSM manuscript. They seem only to occur in the names of angels in particular orations and invocations and it seems that these angel names come from Arabic...
View ArticleOmneis
I am reading Tremalius' Latin Bible from 1580 and he keeps using omneis. looks accusative plural. I can't find this anywhere. Im assuming its a misspelling or alternate form of omnes/omnia but I want...
View ArticleLong vowels and accents in perfect subjective
Nearing the end of my second reading of Familia Romana, I am getting ready to make study cards for the perfect subjunctive, but I have run into a dilemma. Some authorities show a long vowel in some...
View ArticleProto-Italic reconstruction
I wasn't sure where to post this, but I came across a nice reading of the Pater Noster in Proto-Italic: The description of the video doesn't give much detail, but it is based on a reconstruction by...
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