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English

Etymology

From Middle English pronunciacioun, from Middle French prononciation, pronunciation, from Latin pr?n?nti?ti?, noun of action from perfect passive participle pr?n?nti?tus, from verb pr?n?nti?re (“proclaim”), from pr?- (“for”) + n?nti?re (“announce”). Doublet of pronuntiatio.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pr?-n?n'-s?-??-sh?n, IPA^(key): [p????n?n.si?e?.??n]
• enPR: pr?-noun'-s?-??-sh?n IPA^(key): /p???na?n.si?e?.??n/ (common but proscribed, corresponding to the misspelling pronounciation)
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: pro?nun?ci?a?tion

Noun

pronunciation (countable and uncountable, plural pronunciations)

1. (countable) The formal or informal way in which a word is made to sound when spoken.
2. (uncountable) The way in which the words of a language are made to sound when speaking.

3. (countable) The act of pronouncing or uttering something.
   • 1831, Thomas Oughton, James Thomas Law, Forms of Ecclesiastical Law (page 62)

     The second part is the sentence, which is the judge's pronunciation upon a cause depending between two in controversy.

Antonyms

• mispronunciation

Hyponyms

• Received Pronunciation
• spelling pronunciation

Derived terms

Related terms

• pronounce
• mispronounce

Translations

See also

• orthoepy
• phoneme
• Wiktionary:Pronunciation

Further reading

• pronunciation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pronuntsja?tsjon/

Noun

pronunciation (plural pronunciationes)

1. pronunciation
2. pronunciation proclamation, manifest

Synonyms

• (proclamation): pronunciamento

Middle French

Alternative forms

• prononciation

Noun

pronunciation f (plural pronunciations)

1. oration; speech; talk (act of expressing something verbally)
2. pronunciation; pronouncement (of a verdict)
3. pronunciation

Descendants

• French: prononciation
• ? Middle English: pronunciacioun, pronunciacion
  • English: pronunciation
  • Scots: pronunciacione

English

Etymology

Recorded since c.1330 as Middle English pronouncen (“to utter, declare officially”), from Old French prononcier, from Latin pr?n?nti?, itself from pr?- (“forth, out, in public”) + n?nti? (“I announce”) from n?ntius (“messenger”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p???na?ns/
• Rhymes: -a?ns

Verb

pronounce (third-person singular simple present pronounces, present participle pronouncing, simple past and past participle pronounced)

1. (transitive) To declare formally, officially or ceremoniously.

2. (transitive) To declare authoritatively, or as a formal expert opinion.
   1. (transitive) To pronounce dead.
      • 2015, April 30, Carol H. Allan, David R. Fowler (medical examiners), Freddie Gray autopsy: excerpt from the report, published in The Baltimore Sun, June 24, 2015

        Despite resuscitative efforts, Mr. Gray was pronounced on 4/19/2015.

3. (intransitive) To pass judgment.

4. (transitive) To sound out (a word or phrase); to articulate.
   • 1869, Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, page 182:

     They spell it "Vinci" and pronounce it "Vinchy". Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
   1. (in passive) To sound like.

5. (intransitive) To produce the components of speech.

6. (transitive) To read aloud.

Derived terms

Related terms

• pronouncement
• pronunciation

Translations

Anagrams

• couponner