Elements of Latin Pronunciation for the Use of Students (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ...There is no evidence of its corresponding sonant v existing in Latin; and it is-also wanting in German. PH, etc. 191. Modern writers on Latin grammar have falsely assumed that if a Latin word is derived from the Greek it must follow a certain orthography; and if not derived from this language, it cannot have Ph in it. It might as well be said that the English words haPhazard and uPHold are incorrectly spelt, because PH should be placed only in words of Greek origin. 192. The orthography of Bosphorus is said to be incorrect, because the etymology requires it to be Bosporus, an assertion which virtually denies that H can be acquired in words from the, Greek where it is absent, although Hibiscu and Helops are examples to the contrary. 193. The word Bssphorus would not be b-s$o o$ in Greek LABIAL CONSONANTS.--DENTAL CONSONANTS. 41 characters, but BujTtofoj, as Isthuc (ist-huc) would be cjr'nx and not ts -. 194. H followed p, &e., (when written) in Triumphus, Inchoo, Cochlea, Bacchus, and other words.---195. Cicero thought H should be rejected from Triumphus, Ptjlcher, Carthago, and Cethegus, probably because he did not pronounce it, and his authority is sufficient for its rejection. This fact is sufficient evidence that Ph in Triumphus are not equivalent to f; and the inscriptive-forms Triumpus, Pulcer, are sufficient authority for its rejection. 196. If this view of the double nature of h is correct, there is no means of readily determining when it is to have its independent power. On this account h is used when the pure sound is supposed to be represented; and h, which is an ancient form, when it is merely a diacritical mark of co-aspiration. 6. DENTAL CONSONANTS. L 197. L is the liquid or half interruption of the dental...