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Interestingly, spoken Catalan and spoken Portuguese also use -u as ending, while -o is written.

• asveikau 5y ago
  And further, latin nominative -us or -um has an -o- in some inflected forms. Example: bonorum, "of the good ones" The article that mentioned cesor for censor also pointed out that in places where classical latin has -us or -um, early latin inscriptions might have -os, -om, or -o. Sometimes i feel like when i hear speakers of modern romance languages talk really fast, unstressed o and u seem to get closer to one another. Maybe you could call it a continuum of "roughly that vowel".
  • YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
    >> And further, latin nominative -us or -um has an -o- in some inflected forms. Example: bonorum, "of the good ones" And also, famously, "Babaorum". Edit: oh, which btw does what you say, it's pronounced more with an "o" sound in French. Like all the "-um"'s. Otherwise "Petibonum" wouldn't work.