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Latin diphthongs

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-24 16:05

Can there be diphthongs spanning root and case ending, i.e., are meus and meum one syllable words while mea is a two syllable word?
Also, can there be diphthongs where one or both vowels are long? Take for example the genitive of meus, mei (long i). How would that be pronounced?

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-25 16:41

>are meus and meum one syllable words

No, they're two syllables, at least under British/American pronunciation.  (A different system of Latin pronunciation is taught in Continental Europe, which I am not familiar with.)

Name: Anonymous 2013-01-02 7:50

"Mea", "meus", "meum" etc, are two-syllable words, different cases of "i/me/my/mine…" ("me-a", "me-us", "me-um", etc)
Check http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meus for (more) complete list, btw.

>>2
This could be why whenever I hear an Anglophone (Brit/Yankee/whatever) go and (try to) speak Latin, all I ever hear is butchered language.

Name: Anonymous 2013-01-04 22:55


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Name: Anonymous 2014-01-15 16:53

>>4
Well then go FUCK Mexico, if it makes you so hard!

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