PRONUCIATION

LATIN ALPHABET

ABCDEFHGIKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ
 VOWELS
• A is A like in father - Anima
• E is always E like in they - etiam
• I is always I like in bit - italicus
• O is always O like in whole - opus
• U is always U like in rude – cursus
• Y is always I like in Italy - Styx
• AE is like in aisle (AI) – aestas
• OE is like in toil (OI) - poena
 CONSONANTS
• C is always C like in cat - cena, causa, Caesar
• G is always G like in get – grandis, Aegyptus, gerrere
• S is always S like in sea – rosa, sedet, sumus
• T and Th are always T – terra, teathrum, ratio, actio
• Ch is always K – schola, pulcher
• Ph is F – Philipus, philosophia
• H is always H like in house -hic, hoc, habet,
• X is always KS like in ex – rex, vox, lex
• Q is always followed by U an it is read as in question, quis, quod,
quattuor, quinque
• There is no W and very rarely Z
 READ THE FOLLOWING WORDS:
• Persona, computare, intelligere, quattuor,
quinque, mortus, corpus, pulchra, Rhodus,
clinica, fractura, cranium, digitus, pulmo,
occulum, aurum, argentum, carbon, historia,
magister, civis, difficultas, veritas, liber, mox,
uxor, athleta, nauta, amor, dolor, septem,
octo, novem, decem, gloria, grandis, natio,
ratio, operatio, bellum, ambulare, vincere,
credere, vixi, dictum, lectum, facere, factum