geminatio vocalium

noun

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.

OriginLatin geminatio vocalium →
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Meanings

noungeminatio vocalium (uncountable)
  1. uncountableepigraphyThe 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.

    The least-used method is geminatio vocalium, as in Oscan and (occasionally) Umbrian: PAASTORES.

    2008, Andrew L Sihler, New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin

Origin

  1. Latingeminatio vocalium“doubling of vowels”
  2. Englishgeminatio vocalium

Borrowed from Latin geminatio vocalium (“doubling of vowels”).

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