Greek grammarians called heavy syllables ('long', singular ), and placed them in two categories. They called a syllable with a long vowel or diphthong ('long by nature'), and a syllable ending in a consonant ('long by position'). These terms were translated into Latin as ' and '. However, Indian grammarians distinguished vowel length and syllable weight by using the terms "heavy" and "light" for syllable quantity and the terms "long" and "short" only for vowel length. This article adopts their terminology, since not all metrically heavy syllables have long vowels; e.g.: