Bella???

[Haggridd]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Amy Z" <lupinesque at y...> 
wrote:
> Jen, the invaluable Resident Classicist, wrotE:
> 
> >    2.  In a three (or more) syllable word, stress the 
> antepenultimate,
> >    unless the penult is long, in which case you stress that.  
The 
> penult
> >    is long if it contains a long vowel or a short vowel followed 
> by two
> >    or more consonants.
> 
> How does one know whether the vowel is long or short?
> 
> Amy

In Bellatrix, the vowel in the antepenult is followed by two 
consonants, hence it is long, hence it is BELL-a-trix.

Haggridd