wheelock’s latin dipthongs

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ae

as ai in aisle: cārae, saepe

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au

as ou in house: aut, laudō

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ei

as in reign: deinde

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eu

as Latin e + u, pronounced rapidly as a single syllable: seu. The sound does not occur in English and is rare in Latin.

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oe

as oi in oil: coepit, proelium

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ui

as in Latin u + i, spoken as a single syllable like Spanish muy (or like English gooey, pronounced quickly as a single syllable). This diphthong occurs only in huius, cuius, huic, cui, hui. Elsewhere the two letters are spoken separately as in fu-it, frūctū-ī.

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Double consonant

are each pronounced separately (cur-rent)