Talk:Elara (moon)
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Two conflicting pronunciations in English: ee'-lur-a would be expected from stress rules, and is the pronunciation used by the Random House and American Heritage dictionaries and the Columbia Encyclopedia. However, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology (JE Zimmerman, Harper & Row, 1964), the Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names (Bollard, ed.), and the Encyclopedia Mythica (online) have the seemingly irregular pronunciation ee-lair'-a. Zimmerman gives literary English pronunciations and doesn't try to recapture the Greek accent, so I'm taking both pronunciations to be valid. --kwami 02:08, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Actually, there is a slight chance that the Latin is Elāra, in which case the ee-lair'-a pronunciation would be regular. Since the Greek alphabet doesn't distinguish long from short a the way it does with mid vowels, this is a possibility. However, it's unlikely, as Attic ā regularly shifted to ō. kwami
Wow, this name isn't even in the full 9th edition of Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon. Given the unlikelihood of a long a in the Greek, your best bet might be ee'-lur-a. kwami 00:04, 2005 May 28 (UTC)