English → Latin
“pronounce” in Latin
appellōto drive or move to; to land or put ashoreefferōto bring, bear, carry, take out, forth, away; transport; to carry out (of the house) for burial, bear to the grave, burydīcōto say, talk, speak, utter, mention; to declare, state; to tellēloquorto speak or utter plainly; to speak out; pronounce, declare, state, express; divulgeverbumword; proverb, saying; verbprōloquorto speak out, utter, declare, say; to foretell, predictefforto speak, say out, utter; to define, determine, fixexplicōto unfold, unfurl, uncoil, loosen, undo; to spread out, stretch out, extend, display, deploy; to disentangle, solve, setēdīcōto declare, publish, establish, announce; to appoint, decree, ordain something; to make known (of a decree), proclaim; e
The English word pronounce itself goes back to Latin nūntius, through prōnūntiō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
pronounce
To articulate by the organs of speech, appellare (Cic., Brut., 35, 133): enunciare, efferre (to denote by sound: ☞ pronunciare is rather = to deliver; first in Gell., to pronounce): dicere (to utter). To pronounce words too broadly, voces distrahere; letters, litteras valde dilatare; (affectedly), putidius exprimere litteras: to pronounce distinctly, plane loqui; alicui est os planum or explanatum: to pronounce words PROP. and with the right tone of voice, exprimere verba et suis quasque litteras sonis enunciare: to pronounce indistinctly, verba, litteras (negligentius) obscurare: to pronounce incorrectly, aliquid perperam enunciare: to pronounce a syllable short, syllabam corripere or breviare; long, syllabam producere: not to be able to ppronounce the letter R, litteram R dicere non posse.
To speak, utter, pronunciare (to deliver with distinct and audible voice): eloqui, verbis exprimere (to express well in words): enunciare, also with verbis (to speak out): proloqui (to say out, say aloud): effari (to speak out, religious-archaic, and poetic word; but ☞ Cic., De Or., 3, 38, 153): explicare, explanare verbis (to explain in words): edicere (to give to understand, to make known; Vid: Cic., Ecl., p. 225).
To declare solemnly: to pronounce sentence, sententiam dicere (of a judge): sententiam pronunciare (to publish the judgement after and according to the decision of a judge): judicium facere (☞ not judicium ferre, though sententiam or suffragium ferre are correct): to pronounce an opinion, dicere quid sibi videatur; sententiam suam dicere; aperire sententiam suam: to pronounce guiltless, absolvere (PROP. and IMPROP.); of anything, aliqua re or de aliqua re (e.g., regni suspicione, de praevaricatione): exsolvere aliqua re (e.g., suspicione): liberare aliqua re (set free; general term).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for pronounce?
- The usual Latin words for “pronounce” are appellō, efferō, dīcō; also ēloquor, verbum, prōloquor. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.