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English
Etymology
From Latin prōnūntiātiō. Doublet of pronunciation.
Noun
pronuntiatio (uncountable)
- One of the five canons of classical rhetoric: the discipline of delivering speeches.
See also
Latin
Etymology
From prōnūntiō (“proclaim, announce”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
prōnūntiātiō f (genitive prōnūntiātiōnis); third declension
- proclamation, declaration
- pronunciation, speech
- (rhetoric) manner, delivery
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “pronuntiatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pronuntiatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pronuntiatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- artistic delivery; declamation: pronuntiatio c. Gen.