leciniate or laciniate?
schwaOnly the SIN of laciniate is stressed. Everything on either side of it is reduced, and reduced vowels get written however they land.
heard asleciniate
spelledlaciniate
saidluh-SIN-ee-ut
laciniate. The word begins la-.
Both an e and an a can stand for the shapeless vowel at the start. The tiebreaker is the noun that is still in use: a laciniate margin is cut into laciniae, and once you have written that word the opening la- stops being a coin toss.
More of the same word
lacciniate laciniat luciniate lasiniate lacineate laciniute
Every one of them has an entry. All 9 spellings of laciniate.