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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.)

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