Moss Spelling Dictionary

lunalaria, and the diminutive inside it

heard as lunalaria

spelled lunularia

Lunularia. The third vowel is another u.

What the ear did

The -ul- is the Latin diminutive, the piece that turns luna into a little moon. It is the same fragment as in globule, nodule and lunule, and it never changes vowel.

Sound decision: an unstressed vowel blurring. Said loon-yoo-LAIR-ee-uh.

L-U-N-U-L-A-R-I-A

The full entry for lunularia covers the name itself.

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