Quick Strange Question

[Hamilcar Barca]

Something which has been bugging me for a while: I always hear people pronounce Diocletian's name differently, can someone tell me what is the correct pronounciation?

[Lost_Warrior]

I say die-o-CLEE-shun

 

I don't know if its correct, but its what I've always heard and its how I say it.

[Lacertus]

If say on Latin: ['diakleti'an]. Accented on first and last syllables. The word pronounces without sounds [ai] or [sh].

I think the different pronounces are possible on different languages.

[Favonius Cornelius]

I say Di-oh-kle-ti-an but I bet it's probably incorrect, but I have a way of cementing pronunciations in my head the first time I see a word, hard to break from.

[P.Clodius]

I say Di-oh-kle-ti-an but I bet it's probably incorrect

 

No I'd say you were right. PM will be the judge of this issue I think, unless someone can recruit their local priest to UNRV! ;-)

[Favonius Cornelius]

I say Di-oh-kle-ti-an but I bet it's probably incorrect

 

No I'd say you were right. PM will be the judge of this issue I think, unless someone can recruit their local priest to UNRV! ;-)

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You mean as in church Latin? I remember in Latin class back in the day though my teacher said church Latin is not true Latin pronounciation.

[Lost_Warrior]

It's not. There's quite a few differences, but I don't know enough about either to point them all out. I do know though, that the "v" in church latin would be prounounced "w" in ancient latin. ah-weh Yoo-lee-oos Ka-hee-zah (Ave Julius Caesar!) for instance. Actually, "veni, vidi, vici" is a better example (weni, widi, wici)

 

All I know is its annoying the heck out of my when my teachers pronounce things wrong...like pronouncing the j in jus solis. ::grumble::

[Primus Pilus]

Ka-hee-zah (Ave Julius Caesar!) for instance

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Hence the German word Kaiser (among others) which is far closer to the correct pronunciation than our own English See zar.

[Tobias]

I was interested to read in books by Patrick O'Brian that a learned person ( a priest for example), who was educated in the English pronunciation of latin, finds, for example, a Portuguese Catholic priest's Latin almost incomprehensible.

Have English latin and latin by the Romans or other countries really drifted so far apart?

By the way, i always pronounced Diocletian Di-o-clee-shun, but that;s just me

[Perseverantius]

Something which has been bugging me for a while: I always hear people pronounce Diocletian's name differently, can someone tell me what is the correct pronounciation?

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I say it "die-oh-KLEE-shun" but it was probably pronounced either "Dee-oh-KLEH-tyahn" or "Dee-oh-KLEH-tsyahn". Or so I have been told

[Silentium]

"Dee-oh-KLEH-tsyahn". Or so I have been told

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That's the correct pronounciation but I think everyone is free to pronounce it the way they want..there's no native speaker alive to correct you after all =) and it's true that latin is spoken differently in different European countries, people tend to add to the latin pronounciation peculiar characteristics of their own languages.

[Hamilcar Barca]

Thanks for the feed back people.