Continental pronunciation
- Continental pronunciation
- Continental pronunciation Continental pronunciation (of Latin
and Greek.)
A method of pronouncing Latin and Greek in which the vowels
have their more familiar Continental values, as in German and
Italian, the consonants being pronounced mostly as in
English. The stricter form of this method of pronouncing
Latin approaches the Roman, the modified form the English,
pronunciation. The Continental method of Greek pronunciation
is often called {Erasmian}.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
2000.
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