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habarakhe4 <Anthony.Miles@hidden.email> wrote: > --- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Muke Tever" <muke@...> wrote: >> >> Benct Philip Jonsson <melroch@...> wrote: >> > What gender are the names of letters in Romance languages? >> > In Latin they are neuter, so I guess they are masculine in >> > Romance, but you can never be sure, especially as the word >> > LITTERA itself is feminine... >> >> In Latin they are often feminine themselves, probably because of >> 'littera'. e.g. the Latin name for the sign for long I is "I > longa". > > In the Neo-Latin I was taught 'long' and 'short' are 'producta' > and 'correpta', respectively. Yes. "I longa" is a symbol or letter the Romans used, like an ordinary I but somewhat taller (i.e. with a "long" stroke). When it was used it represented the sound of "I producta", in e.g. "dIgnus". *Muke! -- website: http://frath.net/ LiveJournal: http://kohath.livejournal.com/ deviantArt: http://kohath.deviantart.com/ FrathWiki, a conlang and conculture wiki: http://wiki.frath.net/