Gemination vs Sicilicus - What's the difference?
gemination | sicilicus |
(phonetics) A phenomenon when a consonant is pronounced for an audibly longer period of time than is done normally.
(Roman measurements) A unit of weight equal to one quarter of an uncia.
* 1830 , Journal of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy , volume 1,
* 1859 , Sir William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities ,
A diacritic, resembling a 180-rotated ‘C’ (i.e. , being similar in appearance to ? ? ?), written atop a consonant to mark gemination, superseded in Classical Latin by doubling the letter representing the geminated consonant.
* 1925 , Sir John Edwin Sandys, A Companion to Latin Studies (3rd edition; Cambridge University Press),
As nouns the difference between gemination and sicilicus
is that gemination is (phonetics) a phenomenon when a consonant is pronounced for an audibly longer period of time than is done normally while sicilicus is (roman measurements) a unit of weight equal to one quarter of an uncia or sicilicus can be a diacritic, resembling a 180-rotated ‘c’ (ie , being similar in appearance to ⟨ ᵓ ⟩), written atop a consonant to mark gemination, superseded in classical latin by doubling the letter representing the geminated consonant.gemination
English
(wikipedia gemination)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* degeminationSee also
* twinningsicilicus
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(sicilici)page 182:
- Both the pounds were therefore divided alike into 15 ores, that is, ounces; the ores into 4 skyllings, the sicilici of the Romans, and the skyllings into 4 pence by the Saxons, while the Danes used the mark of 20 skyllings, and the skylling of 2 mancuses.
9MNOC_QbPtJm3BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=%22sicilici%22&f=false page 1213:
- UNCIA (), the twelfth part of the As or Libra, is derived by Varro from unus'', as being the unit of the divisions of the as (''L. L.'' v. 171, Müller). It was subdivided into 2 ''semunciae'', 3 ''duellae'', 4 ''sicilici'' , 6 ''sextulae'', 24 ''scrupula'', and 144 ''siliquae .
Synonyms
* (Roman measurement) (l)Etymology 2
From the (etyl) sicilicus, the diminutive form of , so named because of its falciformity.Noun
(sicilici)page 743:
- It is stated by grammarians that a sicilicus or laterally inverted was placed above a consonant which was to be regarded as a doubled letter.