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Are vowels long before "gn"?

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Why is "ille" used in Winnie ille Pu and Hobbitus Ille?

What gender should a predicate adjective be to agree with a series of things with different genders?

What are the classical names of the letters of the Latin alphabet?

When did scriptio continua and interpuncts give way to spaces between words in Latin?

When did the consonant U (i.e., V) begin to be pronounced as the fricative [v] instead of [w]?

Did ancient Romans raise the intonation of their voices when asking questions?

Which Roman Numerals were used to express extremely large numbers in Classical Latin?

Why might "Philosophiae Doctor" (the source of "Ph.D.") have been preferred over "Doctor Philosophiae"?

What were used as "filler" words in Classical Latin?

What is the meaning of "suffragio" at the time of Calvin?

What is "slipped my mind" in Latin?

Would it be good Classical Latin style to always use the preposition "ab" and never "ā"?

In Classical Latin, what was the geographic extent of "Asia"?

Happy Birthday and the accusative of exclamation

When did Caesar's works begin to be used to teach Latin to non-native speakers?

When were macrons first used to mark Latin text?

Were voiceless stops (p, t, c, qu) aspirated in Classical Latin?

Which animal names have grammatical gender, and which have common gender?

Why did Cicero switch from "abs te" to "a te" in his later works?

Why does singular "mons" become plural "montes"?

What is the origin of the "veneration" meaning of dulia?

Is pronouncing 'th' as 's' in 'Boethius' typical in any common Latin pronunciation scheme?

Are vowels long before "gn"?

Is -um (instead of -ōrum) a typical genitive plural ending outside of poetry?

Why are De Bello Africo and Hispaniensi not believed to have been written by Julius Caesar or Hirtius?

When did discere come to mean "to teach"?

What's the difference between coniunctivus and subiunctivus?

What's the the Latin word for a government minister / secretary?

Does any historical Latin-based sign language exist?

Are "parvus" and "magnus" the best adjectives to describe the length of a river?