Etymology of 'Accio' and more

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 160902

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Scarah <scarah at ...> wrote:
>
> Accio is a word, in Latin.  Its pronunciation rules are clear from
> what I can find out.  CC before A, O or U sounds like K, CC before E
> or I sounds like CH.  Ah-chee-o.
> 
> It means to summon.  There is a phrase accio mortum meaning to
> commit suicide.

Geoff:
Just in the passing, I pointed out that it was a real Latin word and gave 
its meaning in message 160814.

My Oxford Latin Dictionary, in its Guide to Pronunciation, says 
"c is always hard as in cat".

Moving to message 160883...

bboyminn:
> Cut me some slack, it was 3:30 AM and my brain was
> running out of gas. 

Geoff:
Well , if you must be a night owl...
:-(

bboyminn:
> Plus, I was fixated on the previous
> suggestion of 'accelerate'. Still, I get your point. But
> none the less, the more I think about it, the more
> 'ack-see-oh' feels right to me, and that's what counts...
> isn't it? ;)

> Also, as you will notice, many of your words do not follow
> 'acc...' with a vowel, and those that do use 'o' or 'u'.
> Try looking up words that use 'i' or 'e' after the
> 'acc...'; Accident, accessions, access, accepts, accessory.
> Though there are some exceptions such as 'acciaccatura'
> which uses the 'ch' sound.

Geoff:
It goes back to your comment that "nearly all" words starting 
with ACC...

Looking at your comment quoted above that "many of your 
words do not follow 'acc...; with a vowel, in my list of words, 
which you snipped, I gave 16 words which are pronounced 
as 'ack" and 12 of those had a vowel following 'ack'.

I think a 75% result statistically could be reported as "many 
of the words DO follow..."

Sorry, I felt a bit like stirring things this morning.
:-)