Stress in denique

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Constantinus Philo
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Stress in denique

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I have always wondered how denique should be stressed.
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On the antepenultimate. It is not deni + que:

dēnĭquē

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Yes, stress on the first syllable, but I also want to add that the finale e is short: dēnĭquĕ. Lewis & Short erroneously mark it and many other instances of final -ĕ as long: cf. https://www.jstor.org/stable/641434

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Alatius wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2019 12:08 pm Yes, stress on the first syllable, but I also want to add that the finale e is short: dēnĭquĕ. Lewis & Short erroneously mark it and many other instances of final -ĕ as long: cf. https://www.jstor.org/stable/641434
Of course this wouldn't change the pronunciation, but this is something I've never noticed, but I also don't know if I've ever looked up denique in L&S. My Logos edition of L&S doesn't do this, leaving the syllable unmarked:

dēnĭque...

Now I'll have to look at some of the beginning texts I have around to see if they do it.
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