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Latin Vowels and diacritics.
The apix, (apex) pl. apices, was used in classical and postclassical(?) Latin to mark a long vowel. ´, as
Á, it is the roughly the shape of an acute accent. The shape, when written, was often curved, sometimes with a
distinct hook at the top. The apix is generally not encountered and is mostly unknown to most current
Latinists. It was used to distinguish words such as malus and málus or liber and líber or rosa and rosá. Some
authors feel it is a mark indicating that long vowels were at an earlier time written as a double vowels, as a
sicilicus () was used to mark long consonants, later represented by double consonants. The sicilicus (sicilis,
little sickle) an inverted c, ᵓ, placed above a geminate consonant, indicating the spoken consonant was spoken
longer than a single consonant. Modern spelling marks long vowels with a macron, ̄, instead of an apex. The
macron is a sign classically used to mark metrically long syllables or heavy syllables.
In the literature dealing with plant names, the explanation of the names may be given with no
diacritics, macrons ¯only on long vowels with unmarked vowels being short, or occasionally with macrons ¯
on long vowels and breves ˘ on short vowels. The diacritics vary with the source. All detail has been
presented when found.
Studying botanical names deals with genus names as nouns and specific eipthets as adjectives (or
words used as adjectives). In English, nouns have few forms, usually four and involve an s and an apostrophe.
singular plural
dog dogs
possessive dog’s dogs’
or in irregular nouns