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We must also note when
analysing compound words, whether the middle
consonant adheres to the preceding syllable or to
that which follows. For example since the latter
part of haruspex is from spectare, the s must be
assigned to the third syllable. In abstemius on the
other hand it will go with the first syllable since the
word is derived from abstinentia temeti, “abstention
from wine.”
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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