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[Facts] Re: Correct Latinate Pronunication of Alicia.
by Caprice (guest)
6/28/2004, 1:15 PM
in reply to a message by Haven
In Italy, it's ah-LEE-tyah, in Spain a-LEE-thee-ah and in Latin America a-LEE-see-ah.
At least I think so....
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- Haven (guest)   +6
6/28/2004, 2:16 PM
Yes, I know, but I'm looking for the original, Latin pronunication.Thank you though!Haven
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- Elinor (Elly747)   +3
6/29/2004, 1:46 AM
It isn't a Latin name, so there really is none. It has always been pronounced a-LIS-ee-a in England, until very recently when the modern American a-LEESH-a imigrated :-)
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- Haven (guest)   +2
6/29/2004, 8:07 AM
Actually, Alicia is a Latenizied form of Alice...So it is.Sorry, don't mean to be a brat about it.Haven
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- Profe Esteban (guest)
7/3/2004, 9:25 PM
Actually, Alicia is not a latenizied form of Alice. Wrong. Alice is an "anglicated" form of Alicia. You should know that Alicia is a name used by romans and they introduced the name in Britannia (today, England).
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- Mike C
6/30/2004, 11:48 AM
FYIIn the entry for Alicia the word Latinate isn't meant to imply that it derives from Latin, but that it is said/spelled in "the Latin way".
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- Caprice (guest)   +1
6/28/2004, 3:23 PM
Well, the letter C was originally always pr. like "k", which would make it ah-LEE-kee-ah. Lucia, f.ex., was pr. LOO-kee-ah. I'm not sure about Middle Age Latin, but I think C followed by a wovel was then pr. like "ch" in "chicken".
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- Haven (guest)
6/28/2004, 5:18 PM
Wowsers.....I love Lucia pro. LOO-kee-ah.Too bad I couldn't get away with pronunicing it that way today!I took Latin a long, long time ago, can't wait to start again!Haven
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