quaesitum

English translation: Vide infra

00:37 Nov 18, 2005
Latin to English translations [Non-PRO]
Science - Physics
Latin term or phrase: quaesitum
Request proper English pronunciation, and if possible also request phonetic spelling ie, as it would appear in a dictionary definition: kwi-sih-tuum vb, [L] that which is sought, the solution to a problem (this is my guess)

Thank you
Mike
English translation:Vide infra
Explanation:
According to the Restored Prounciation, which obtains in most secular schools, colleges, and universities worldwide and which approximates to how the Romans spoke Latin in the period c.100 BCE-c.100 CE, the word would be sounded as follows:

qu as in queen
ae as i in bite
s as in sit (not as in rose)
i (stressed) as in police
t as in stop (not as in top)
u as in put
m as in drum (although, if it precedes a vowel or diphthong or inital h, it was nasalised or slurrd so as to be barely audible).
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Joseph Brazauskas
United States
Local time: 09:53


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5 +1Vide infra
Joseph Brazauskas
3kw-ae-zih-t-oo-m
Kirill Semenov


  

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kw-ae-zih-t-oo-m


Explanation:
`ae' as in "van" (`kwae' similar to "question").

`u' as `oo' in "good".

And you are right about the meaning: that which is sought.

Kirill Semenov
Ukraine
Local time: 15:53
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Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Joseph Brazauskas: The ecclesiastical pronunciation./Or, as in the West regarding the Ecclesiastical pronunciation, there are two schools as to whether c and t should be sounded ch and ts respectively before ei and i.
2 hrs
  -> well, that's how it's pronounced in Russian tradition, but there are at least two `schools' of pronunciation (like pronouncing `c' as 'ts' or as `k'). :)
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Vide infra


Explanation:
According to the Restored Prounciation, which obtains in most secular schools, colleges, and universities worldwide and which approximates to how the Romans spoke Latin in the period c.100 BCE-c.100 CE, the word would be sounded as follows:

qu as in queen
ae as i in bite
s as in sit (not as in rose)
i (stressed) as in police
t as in stop (not as in top)
u as in put
m as in drum (although, if it precedes a vowel or diphthong or inital h, it was nasalised or slurrd so as to be barely audible).

Joseph Brazauskas
United States
Local time: 09:53
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Vicky Papaprodromou
1 hr
  -> Thanks, Vicky!
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