The story
- Latin · borrowed fromgeminatio vocalium“doubling of vowels”
- English todaygeminatio vocalium
Borrowed from Latin geminatio vocalium (“doubling of vowels”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
geminatio vocalium
Today it means: The process of indicating that a vowel is pronounced long by writing it twice, especially as was sometimes done in Latin due to influence from Oscan. Full definition →
Latin geminatio vocalium