Assertion: classical latin's vowel | /r/HasProperty | short
Facets:
value: depending on the root
type: OTHER
value: always
type: DEGREE
value: except for u
type: OTHER
value: in this class
type: OTHER
value: in the middle of a word
type: OTHER
value: in english
type: OTHER
value: except is always long
type: DEGREE
value: in classical latin
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Allen and Greenough say that a vowel before [ŋn] is always long,  but W. Sidney Allen says that is based on an interpolation in Priscian, and the vowel was actually long or short depending on the root, as for example rēgnum [ˈreːŋ.nũː] from the root of rēx [reːks] , but magnus [ˈmaŋ.nʊs] from the root of magis [ˈma.ɡɪs] .  
text: The most extreme case occurs with short vowels in medial open syllables (i.e. short vowels followed by at most a single consonant, occurring neither in the first nor last syllable): All are reduced to a single vowel, which appears as i in most cases, but e (sometimes o) before r, and u before an l which is followed by o or u.
text: Allen and Greenough say that a vowel before is always long, but W. Sidney Allen says that is based on an interpolation in Priscian, and the vowel was actually long or short depending on the root, as for example from the root of , but from the root of .
text: ⟨ā ē ī ō ū ȳ⟩, while the breve is sometimes used to indicate that a vowel is short: ⟨ă ĕ ĭ
text: But when these same words function as nouns, the stress shifts to the prefix, and the vowel in the first syllable is short.
text: Classical Latin had both long and short vowels.
text: The short vowel mark is generally omitted, if not marked, a vowel is usually short.
text: Classical Latin had five short vowels, ă, ĕ, ĭ,
text: There are no simple clues for the novice as to whether a vowel is long or short .
text: A vowel followed by a consonant at the end of a word is short in English, except that final -es is always long, as in Pales PAY-leez.
text: In the middle of a word, a vowel followed by more than one consonant is short, as in Hermippe hər-MIP-ee, while a vowel with no following consonant is long.
text: When it contains a vowel that may have been either short or long in Classical Latin, stress is ambiguous.
text: In this class, the vowels are always short, except for u, which may be reduced to [ə].
text: The most extreme case occurs with short vowels in medial syllables (i.e. short vowels in a syllable that is neither the first nor the last), where all five vowels usually merge into a single vowel: