geminatio vocalium
Meanings
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.
Word forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin geminatio vocalium (“doubling of vowels”).
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