different between nunciate vs enunciate

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?n.si.?t/

Noun

nunciate (plural nunciates)

1. (obsolete) One who announces; a messenger or nuncio.
   • 1763, Torquato Tasso, John Hoole, Jerusalem Delivered

     a faithful nunciate from the throne above

Anagrams

• auncient, uncinate

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