Talk:eia

Latin Adjective?

I am not sure eia is an inflected form of an adjective in Latin. Eius (or ejus) is the genitive form of is, ea, id, but, despite ending in -us, it is not declined as an adjective, as far as I know. I could not find any reference to it, either. I acknowledge the fact that I've never seen it does not mean it does not exist, so I am doing some more research on the subject, to be sure.Panglossa 01:14, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

That's correct; it's a common mistake among beginning Latin learners. I removed it. Lesgles (talk) 03:34, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Latin vowel length

• It's implied that eia is related to Greek εἴα (mentioned in Latin dictionaries), or maybe εἶα (an interjection in Greek dictionaries)
• ēia might be a misleading way to mark a "consonant i" for which Allen & Greenough have ^ on the preceding vowel: "êia", and in grammars and text the interjections is also spelled "eja".

So it seems that the e is short and not long. -84.161.25.74 09:51, 10 April 2017 (UTC)