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?
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 audioÌ„: sortiÌ„tioÌ„, sortiÌ„tus; audiÌ„tioÌ„, audiÌ„tus; and likewise expediÌ„tioÌ„, expediÌ„tus.
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Eh? Not according to any of my dictionaries — or, indeed, Lewis and Short.
I read it in Casell.
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?
http://www.rhapsodes.fll.vt.edu/horace_ode_1.htm
Sokowsky pronounced in Horace’s Odes: expediÌ„tiÌ„s.
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.