geminatio vocalium

geminatio vocalium
(epigraphy) 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.

The least-used method is geminatio vocalium, as in Oscan and (occasionally) Umbrian: <span style="font-variant:small-caps">paastores</span>. —Sihler.


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