CLASSICS 2MT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Inuus, Puva Therapy, Mylo
17 May 2016
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c and g before back vowels (a, o, u) are pronounced hard - as in car and go. Before front vowels (e, i, y) are pronounced soft - cinder and age: however, in latin - they are always hard. Hard c or g followed by s, the resulting sound is written as x Because c was originally always hard, c and k have been used interchangeably. Occasionally an e (a front vowel) will intrude after a c or g and before a back vowel, where it softens the consonant (ex. Sometimes the r- will be doubles after another combining form (ex. Some translations will not make sense with literal translation - therefore we must add word(s) o. Examples that illustrate fairly common patterns where translation must be expanded: Derm/oid/ec/tom/y - the cutting out of something resembling the skin. Crani/ec/tom/y - the cutting out of part of the skull. Rhin/o/necr/os/is - the death of the tissues of the nose.
