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--Apisite (talk) 03:48, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Latin spelling curiosity
In an edit comment a couple years ago on "crustulum", you said "it is extremely unlikely that the first u in this word was long by nature [...] The Elementary Latin Dictionary is probably just marking syllabic length". I'm curious about the difference between syllabic length and vowel length as I can't find anything about it online! Unless you meant to say "syllabic stress", which would clear things up too :)

Aleksavo (talk) 20:37, 31 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Well, Aleksavo, how can I put it? Let me just say that the entire edifice of both Greek and Latin poetry is based on syllable length, also known as syllable quantity. You might want to start by reading this article: Prosody (Latin), especially the section on Quantity. Pasquale (talk) 20:58, 31 March 2023 (UTC)