eius

Pronunciation

 * The first syllable scans as heavy in Classical Latin verse. In accordance with this, some dictionaries and other linguistic resources mark the "E" in the first syllable with a length marker (ēius/ējus): however, there is no consensus that the vowel itself was long. Historically, some scholars have thought that the first syllable contained a long vowel /eː/ derived by monophthongization of an earlier diphthong [ei̯]. But the geminate consonant /jj/, which was regularly written with single "i" in Latin, would have rendered the preceding syllable heavy even if the vowel itself was short /e/. Compare and, and see the discussion of intervocalic -i- in Allen 1978:38-40. An alternative interpretation treats the first syllable as containing a diphthong /ei̯/; this is essentially equivalent to /ej/, as there is no contrast in Latin between vowel-consonant sequences ending in /j/ and diphthongs ending in i̯. (Cser 2016:31-37 discusses the question of the best phonemic analysis of so-called 'diphthongs' in Latin and concludes that it is preferable to analyze them all as vowel-consonant sequences such as /ej/.)
 * An iambic pronunciation, /e.jus/ (with a light first syllable) may occur in Plautus.
 * An iambic pronunciation, /e.jus/ (with a light first syllable) may occur in Plautus.

Determiner

 * : his, of him, her, of her, its, of it; of this/of that