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- noun epigraphy The process of indicating that a
vowel is pronouncedlong by writing it twice, especially as was sometimes done in Latin due to influence fromOscan .
Etymologies
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Latin geminatio vocalium “doubling of vowels;” geminatio “doubling, gemination” + vocalis “vowel.”
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