pronounce

英 [pr?'na?ns] 美[pr?'na?ns]

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第三人稱單數:?pronounces;過去式:?pronounced;過去分詞:?pronounced;現在分詞:?pronouncing;

pronounce 發音，讀音，宣布，公布

pro-,向前，-nounce,發音，詞源同announce,nuncio.引申諸相關詞義。

pronounce: pronounce: [14] Latin nuntius meant ‘messenger’. From it was derived the verb nuntiāre ‘announce’, which has formed the basis of English announce [15], annunciation [14], denounce [13], pronounce, and renounce [14]. Pronounce itself goes back to Latin prōnuntiāre ‘proclaim’, formed with the prefix prō- ‘forth, out, in public’. Its specific application to the ‘way in which a person speaks’ emerged in English in the early 17th century.
=> announce, denounce, nuncio, renounce
pronounce (v.): early 14c., "to declare officially;" late 14c., "to speak, utter," from Old French prononcier "declare, speak out, pronounce" (late 13c., Modern French prononcer), from Late Latin pronunciare, from Latin pronuntiare "to proclaim, announce; pronounce, utter," from pro- "forth, out, in public" (see pro-) + nuntiare "announce," from nuntius "messenger" (see nuncio). With reference to the mode of sounding words or languages, it is attested from 1620s (but see pronunciation in this sense from early 15c.). Related: Pronounced; pronouncing.

1. Men feel perfectly free to pronounce on the way women should look.: 男人隨心所欲地對女性美的標準發表看法。

3. The authorities took time to pronounce their verdicts.: 當局斟酌權衡再三才宣布他們的決定。