different between enunciation vs enunciate

English

Etymology

From Latin ?nunti?ti?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??n?n.s??e?.??n/, /??n?n.???e?.??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??n?n.si?e?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: e?nun?ci?a?tion

Noun

enunciation (countable and uncountable, plural enunciations)

1. The act of enunciating, announcing, proclaiming, or making known; open attestation; declaration.

   It was time for the enunciation of an important truth.

2. Mode of utterance or pronunciation, especially as regards fullness and distinctness or articulation.

   She speaks with an impressively clear enunciation.

3. That which is enunciated or announced; words in which a proposition is expressed; formal declaration

   Synonyms: announcement, statement

Translations

Further reading

• “enunciation, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

See also

• diction

English

Etymology

From Latin ?nunti?tus, past participle of ?nunti? (“to report, declare”), from ?- + n?nti? (“to report”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n?nsi?e?t/
• Hyphenation: e?nun?ci?ate

Verb

enunciate (third-person singular simple present enunciates, present participle enunciating, simple past and past participle enunciated)

1. (transitive) To make a definite or systematic statement of.
2. To announce, proclaim.
   • 1829, Reverend James Marsh, Preface to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Aids to Reflection (originally published 1825)

     the terms in which he enunciates the great doctrines of the gospel

3. (transitive) To articulate, pronounce.

   You must enunciate all the syllables.

4. (intransitive) To make sounds clearly.

   Enunciate when you speak.

Related terms

• enunciable
• enunciation
• enunciator

Translations

Italian

Verb

enunciate

1. second-person plural present indicative of enunciare
2. second-person plural imperative of enunciare
3. second-person plural present subjunctive of enunciare
4. feminine plural of enunciato

Anagrams

• incuneate

Latin

Participle

?nunci?te

1. vocative masculine singular of ?nunci?tus