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Quick latin pronunciation

HoukHouk NipplesThe EchidnaRegistered User regular
edited November 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
So I need to say the latin name for the onion, allium cepa, out loud. The first word was on dictionary.com so i could listen to it, but i dunno what to do with cepa. SEE-pa, SAY-pa, SEP-a, KAY-pa, KEP-a, CHAY-pa, i have no idea and my google-fu is failing me. Any help?

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  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Keh-pa, if I remember my Latin correctly.

    That's classical, not ecclesiastical, though I have no idea if the ecclesiastical pronunciation would be any different.

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  • KhavallKhavall British ColumbiaRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    No I take it back, Italianized would also be KAY-pa

    Ancient franco-flemmish would be "SAY-pa" though.

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  • CheerfulBearCheerfulBear Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Italianized would be CHAY-pa.

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  • KhavallKhavall British ColumbiaRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Really? With the leading consonant being forwards wouldn't the c be a harder c, keeping the inversion up?

    Maybe I'm just messing it up with Germanic.

    No that can't be right, it would be Hchkay-pen in germanic.

    And the "Sh" would be forwards....


    Either way I still think that Kay-pen is the correct Italian version.

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  • CheerfulBearCheerfulBear Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Leading consonant? Forwards? Inversion? What are you talking about?

    In Italian, any "c" or "g" followed by "e" or "i" is going to become "ch" and "j" respectively.

    Edit: Furthermore, here's the Wikipedia article on Ecclesiastical pronunciation:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastical_Latin#Pronunciation

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  • PolloDiabloPolloDiablo Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Not much to add, classical is KAY-pa, ecclesiastical is CHAY-pa.

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