Pronunciation of "expeditio"

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Pronunciation of "expeditio"

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Quick and easy(?) question: is there any evidence what so ever that would motivate the pronunciation "expedĭti?", with a short "i"? Similarly "expedĭtus" (adjective and noun)? What does OLD say?

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I don't have the OLD, but I would say the i has to be long, seeing as the words are derived from a 4th-conjugation verb that follows the pattern of sortior and audiō: sortītiō, sortītus; audītiō, audītus; and likewise expedītiō, expedītus.

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Lucus Eques wrote:However, there is the adverb expeditē, short 'i'.
Eh? Not according to any of my dictionaries — or, indeed, Lewis and Short.

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Twpsyn wrote:
Lucus Eques wrote:However, there is the adverb expeditē, short 'i'.
Eh? Not according to any of my dictionaries — or, indeed, Lewis and Short.
I read it in Casell.
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Expedīti? (et expedītus -a -um) dicit OLD et expedītē dicit et OLD et Cassell (de editione anni 1909)

Why do you ask, Alatius? Cur, Alati, quaestionem ponas?

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http://www.rhapsodes.fll.vt.edu/horace_ode_1.htm

Sokowsky pronounced in Horace's Odes: expedītīs.
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Post by Alatius »

Thank you all; it was as I suspected then: there's a typo in my dictionary (the most common Latin-Swedish dictionary, by Ahlberg, Lundqvist, Sörbom.)

Gr?ti?s v?bīs ag?; quippe est ut suspic?tus sum, nam lexicon meum mendam scrīpturae habet.

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