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Generally:

*Stress is on the last syllable of the stem if it is heavy (meaning that it is closed and/or it contains a long vowel or diphthong). Here, stem refers to the word stripped of inflectional suffixes.

*Stress is on the last syllable of the stem if it is heavy (meaning that it is closed and/or it contains a long vowel or diphthong).

**Here, stem refers to the word stripped of inflectional suffixes.

*Otherwise, stress is on the second last syllable of the stem.

*If the above rules would cause stress to fall before the third last syllable of the word, the stress is shifted forward to the third last syllable.

Note that Class 3 nouns ending in ''-ō'' in the nominative may seem to be inconsistent in this regard, since the ''-ō'' is stressed in some words (e.g. ''fōrmācō'' /foːrmaːˈtsoː/ "creation") and unstressed in others (e.g. ''vomō'' /ˈʋɔmoː/ "man, person"). However, these in fact follow the rule, as explained below:

*When the final ''-ō-'' is maintained in inflected forms, it is considered to be part of the stem and is therefore stressed. For example, the accusative of ''fōrmācō'' is ''fōrmācōnę''.

*When the final ''-ō-'' is dropped in inflected forms, it is not considered part of the stem and is therefore unstressed. For example, the accusative of ''vomō'' is ''vominę''.

====Intonation====

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 Generally:
-*Stress is on the last syllable of the stem if it is heavy (meaning that it is closed and/or it contains a long vowel or diphthong). Here, stem refers to the word stripped of inflectional suffixes.
+*Stress is on the last syllable of the stem if it is heavy (meaning that it is closed and/or it contains a long vowel or diphthong).
+**Here, stem refers to the word stripped of inflectional suffixes.
 *Otherwise, stress is on the second last syllable of the stem.
 *If the above rules would cause stress to fall before the third last syllable of the word, the stress is shifted forward to the third last syllable.
+Note that Class 3 nouns ending in ''-ō'' in the nominative may seem to be inconsistent in this regard, since the ''-ō'' is stressed in some words (e.g. ''fōrmācō'' /foːrmaːˈtsoː/ "creation") and unstressed in others (e.g. ''vomō'' /ˈʋɔmoː/ "man, person"). However, these in fact follow the rule, as explained below:
+*When the final ''-ō-'' is maintained in inflected forms, it is considered to be part of the stem and is therefore stressed. For example, the accusative of ''fōrmācō'' is ''fōrmācōnę''.
+*When the final ''-ō-'' is dropped in inflected forms, it is not considered part of the stem and is therefore unstressed. For example, the accusative of ''vomō'' is ''vominę''.
 ====Intonation====