pronounce

vt. 发音；宣判；断言

vi. 发音；作出判断

中文词源

pronounce 发音，读音，宣布，公布

pro-,向前，-nounce,发音，词源同announce,nuncio.引申诸相关词义。

pronounce: pronounce: [14] Latin nuntius meant ‘messenger’. From it was derived the verb nuntiāre ‘announce’, which has formed the basis of English announce [15], annunciation [14], denounce [13], pronounce, and renounce [14]. Pronounce itself goes back to Latin prōnuntiāre ‘proclaim’, formed with the prefix prō- ‘forth, out, in public’. Its specific application to the ‘way in which a person speaks’ emerged in English in the early 17th century.
=> announce, denounce, nuncio, renounce
pronounce (v.): early 14c., "to declare officially;" late 14c., "to speak, utter," from Old French prononcier "declare, speak out, pronounce" (late 13c., Modern French prononcer), from Late Latin pronunciare, from Latin pronuntiare "to proclaim, announce; pronounce, utter," from pro- "forth, out, in public" (see pro-) + nuntiare "announce," from nuntius "messenger" (see nuncio). With reference to the mode of sounding words or languages, it is attested from 1620s (but see pronunciation in this sense from early 15c.). Related: Pronounced; pronouncing.

1. Men feel perfectly free to pronounce on the way women should look.: 男人随心所欲地对女性美的标准发表看法。

3. The authorities took time to pronounce their verdicts.: 当局斟酌权衡再三才宣布他们的决定。