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[Facts] Re: Pronunciation: Astraea
by Caprice
11/25/2004, 12:58 PM
in reply to a message by Miranda
In Classic Latin, "ae" was pr. like "eye" and in Medieval latin like ai in "fair"...but since this is a Greek name, I'm not sure. In Teresa Norman's A World of Baby Names , the pr. is ast-REE-ah.
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- Anneza (guest)
11/25/2004, 10:53 PM
It's conventionally ast-REE-ah for the title of the Restoration poem too - Astraea Redux. That is what Latin pronunciation had turned into in Britain by the 19th century, but what they said in the 17th century I just don't know.
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