vowel and forms a separate syllable. Additionally, an i between two or more vowels stands almost without exception for a double consonant; so, for example a-io, standing for a-iio has two syllables.

In some editions of Latin texts the consonant v is written as u, in which case u is also often consonantal. This can sometimes cause ambiguity; e.g., in the word uoluit (= vol-vit) "he rolls" the second u is a consonant, but in uoluit (= vo-lu-it) "he wanted" the second u is a vowel.

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