Re: Muta cum liquida in JRRT (was "Double stressed" words)

Isidora Zamora scripsit:

> What, precisely, is muta cum liquida?  (I know it's Latin, and I know
> Latin, but by education extends only so far.)
A stop (mutus) followed by an /l/ or /r/ (liquida).  In Latin, this combination
is treated as belonging to the following syllable, and thus not making the
preceding syllable heavy, so it does not attract the stress.  For example,
"tenebra" (darkness) has initial stress, because it is te-ne-bra, not te-neb-ra.
(This rule was changed in Vulgar Latin, though.)

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