Questions tagged [vowel-quantity]
For questions about vowel length.
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What is the etymology of Ἁμαδρυάς (Hamadryas)? Is the second alpha actually long?
I am trying to find more information about the formation and pronunciation of the Greek noun Ἁμαδρυάς, taken into Latin as Hamadryas. L&S transcribes the second a of the Latin form with a macron: ...
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How many vowel qualities did Oscan have?
Oscan was an Italic language related to Latin, which died out somewhere in the early centuries CE. It's notable for being used in the Fabulae Atellanae and for being the source of various loans into ...
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What is the nature of variation between αι and α in (Pre-)Greek words?
When trying to answer a previous question about the patronymic derived from Asclepius, I came across the following quotation from Beekes in the Wikipedia entry on Asclepius:
The name is typical for ...
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Are there specific exceptions to the rule of lengthening a vowel before "ns" or "nf"?
A while ago, I wrote an answer summarizing my understanding of the rule that a vowel is long in Classical Latin before ns or nf.
As far as I know, this rule applied very regularly. But I'm not sure ...
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"Alēctō" or "Allēctō"?
"Alēctō" is the name of one of the Furies, made surprisingly famous in the Harry Potter books. It seems to come straightforwardly from Greek ă- "not" + lēg- "stop" + -tos "[adjective]", so "...
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Does any text corpus allow quantity-sensitive searches?
Is there a text corpus, preferably of classical Latin, in which one can or even must search with specific vowel quantities?
This came up when I wanted to search for patĕre but not patēre and had ...
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What evidence is there of a short vowel in the first syllable of "vallum"?
Two sources that I've come across indicate a long vowel /aː/ in the first syllable of the word vallum 'palisade wall' (that is, vāllum).
This form is given in The Latin Language, by Charles E. ...
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