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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
The process of indicating that a vowel is pronounced long by writing it twice, especially as was sometimes done in Latin due to influence from Oscan.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: epigraphy, history, human-sciences, literature, media, publishing, sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Borrowed from Latin geminatio vocalium (“doubling of vowels”).
