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Vox Latina says conjuctions such as “at, et, sed, igitur” are not accented, but how to know for other conjunctions?
For the record, I tried to find his source (p. 88 footnote 3), and what I found was an old book written entirely in Latin and the exact page number didnt seem to correspond with what I was looking for ...
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What is the accent of words with the -um contraction?
There are contracted words in the genitive plural like deum (deōrum) and dīvum (dīvōrum). I don't know if the accent goes to the penultimate syllable or in the last one where the contraction takes ...
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Double accentuation (Homeric Greek)
There is a line in the Odyssey that got my attention:
Β? ?' ?? Φαι?κων ?νδρ?ν δ?μ?ν τε π?λιν τε (Odyssey, 6.3)
the word in bold print has two accents: why? The same word in Attic dialect has only ...
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To what degree Latin proper accents are known and taught?
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After comment by @Draconis and others: I have used the term "accent" as per Webster: effort in speech to stress one syllable over adjacent syllables. Sorry if this is not the ...
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How does one pronounce a circumflex accent on a short (correpted) vowel?
From Iliad 18.333:
ν?ν δ' ?πε? ο?ν, Π?τροκλε, σε? ?στερο? ε?μ' ?π? γα?αν
As best I can tell from the scansion, the σε? here is shortened by correption, letting it be the final syllable of a dactyl.
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Why are there circumflex accents in these words? -- κορ?ναι, α?γε?, α?γα?
This question is about the Homeric dialect.
crow/gull = ? κορ?νη, κορ?νη?, 1st decl., feminine
goat = α?ξ, α?γ??, 3rd decl., masculine or feminine
In the nominative plural, the copy of Homer I have ...
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Why is tonos (sometimes) rendered different from oxia?
Now cross-posted to Graphic Design SE, as per the discussion in chat.
In the question ‘What is the difference between the accent on q and the accent on semicolon?’, Joonas Ilmavirta suggested I ask a ...
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A question about accentuation for aorist infinitives
I am learning classical Attic Greek at college, and we recently saw that, in a departure from the typical recessiveness of verbs, the accents for aorist infinitives always falls on the penult ...
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Does Greek accent ever affect Latin stress?
Latin borrowed a number of words, including names, from Greek.
Are there any instances where the stress in Latin is not where expected but follows the Greek accent instead?
My impression was always ...
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Doubt on pronunciation of verbs (stressing)
I have recently heard somebody (quoting Virgil) saying "Timèo Danaos...". This sounds awkward to me, but I confess I have not studied Latin for ages.
I remember that timeo is a verb like moneo, II ...
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Under what conditions can "length by position" occur, and what does it actually mean?
I am studying Latin and one of the definitions in my textbook is kind of confusing.
A syllable can be long in one of two ways:
Length by nature. If the syllable contains a long vowel or ...
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When did the difference between acute and grave disappear?
In Classical Greek, to my understanding, there are three types of accents: acute and circumflex both indicate a high tone (just in slightly different ways only applicable to long vowels), while grave ...
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To accent or not to accent in Greek
Bravely trying to scrape the rust of millennia off my Greek (it was last millennium when I learned it) I am faced at the outset with the question of accents.
At school we had a lenient régime which ...
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Are there minimal pairs between the acute and circumflex accent?
Ancient Greek had two (*) different types of accent on long vowels: the "circumflex" accent indicates high tone on the first mora, and the "acute" accent indicates high tone on the second. (Short ...
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