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68. appamrent, 'gleamed.' Apparaitre is fmm the popnlar Iiatin form apparescere, a fréquentative of apparire, Apparéêc(fi)re, being acrented on the ante-pcnultimate syllable, becomes re;;ularly appari«'re by tlie rule so clparly laid down by Brach' t: " Wûere tbe peiiultimato of a Ijatin Word is atonie (>.«. short) tbe Lutin vowel disappears in Frenoh." In words aocented on the ante-peiiultimate, suc i as orâculum, tabula, the penultimate vowel is necessarily short in Latin; tbis Towel, being absorbed by the tonio vowel preccdiog, was scarcely sounded at ail, rertainly not by the "popnlar voice," whicb neglectèd altogether suoh délicate shailes of meaning. For that reason, in atl remuiiis of pnpular Latin which bave been handed down, the short penultimate is already gone; we find oraelum, tabla, mo62ts, etc., and when tbis common Latia became Frem-h, tlie words tbns coutracted becaïue in turn orade, table, meuble, etc. Indeed, by the law wbich forbids the Frenoh bingnage to throw tbe accent furtber back than the penultimate syllable, it waa ooiiipelled, if it wuuld retaiii tlie Latin accent (which we know persista everywbere in Freiich), to suppiesi the short u nf the penultimate in suoh words as oracle, iahle, eta, formed from the Latin, or/icttlum, Idbula, etc. Set're giive O.F. oiitre by tr^Ur (cf. ancêtre from anteeeasorei»^ aiid «a oi (cf. habêre=avoir).