enunciate

From Latin ēnuntiātus, past participle of ēnuntiō (“to report, declare”), from ē- + nūntiō (“to report”).

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈnʌnsiˌeɪt/

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• Hyphenation: e‧nun‧ci‧ate
• Homophone: annunciate

enunciate (third-person singular simple present enunciates, present participle enunciating, simple past and past participle enunciated)

1. (transitive) To make a definite or systematic statement of.
2. To announce, proclaim.
   • 1829, Reverend James Marsh, Preface to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Aids to Reflection (originally published 1825)

     the terms in which he enunciates the great doctrines of the gospel

3. (transitive) To articulate, pronounce.

   You must enunciate all the syllables.

4. (intransitive) To make sounds clearly.

   Enunciate when you speak.

Do not confuse enunciate (to speak clearly) with annunciate (to announce).

• enunciable
• enunciation
• enunciator

enunciate

1. inflection of enunciare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person plural imperative

enunciate f pl

1. feminine plural of enunciato

• incuneate

ēnunciāte

1. vocative masculine singular of ēnunciātus

enunciate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of enunciar combined with te