Because the guide to pronunciation of male names should familiarize the reader with general Latin pronunciation, the list which follows is considerably abbreviated.
Achaeans |
Ah-kye-ans |
Achilles |
Ah-kill-ees |
Adherbal | Ahd-her-bahl |
Aedile | eye-deel (English, ee-dyel or ay-dyel) |
Aedui | Eye-doo-ee |
Aeneas | Eye-nay-ahs (English, An-ee-ass or Ay-nee-ass) |
Aeschylus | Eye-skee-luss (English, Ee-skee-luss) |
ager publicus | ah-ger (the g as in “got”) pub-lee-kuss |
Agger | Ag-er (ag as in “hag”) |
Allobroges | Al-oh-broh-gays (at as in “pal”) |
Ambrones | Am-broh-nays (am as in “ham’’) |
Amor | Ah-mor |
Anopaea | Ah-noh-pye-ah |
Antigone | Ant-ig-oh-nay (ant as in “pant”—ig as in “pig”) |
Apulia | Ah-poo-lee-ah |
Aqua | ah-kwah |
Aquae Sextiae | Ah-kwye Sex-tee-eye |
Arausio | Ah-row-see-oh (row as in “cow”) |
Ariadne | Ah-ree-ahd-nay |
Aricia | Ah-rick-ee-ah (rick as in “kick”) |
Arpinum | Ar-pee-noom (oom is “short”—like the u in “puss”) |
Atuatuci | Ah-too-ah-too-kee |
Auctoritas | owk-tor-ee-tahss (ow as in “cow”) |
Augur | ow-goor (ow as in “cow”—the g as in “good”) |
Aurelia | Ow-ray-lee-ah (English, Awe- ree-lee-ah) |
Baetis | Bye-tiss |
Baiae | Bye-eye |
Berenice | Bear-en-ee-kay (English, Bear-en-eye-kee) |
Biga | bee-gah |
Bithynia | Bith-in-ee-ah (bith as in “pith”) |
Boii | Boy-ee |
Boiohaemum | Boy-oh-hye-moom (oo sounded like the u in “put”) |
Boiorix | Boy-or-ix |
Bomilcar | Bom-ill-kar (bom as in “torn”) |
Bona Dea | Boh-nah Day-ah |
Boni | bonny (as in Scots “bonny”) |
Brundisium | Broon-dis-ee-oom (dis as in “this”) |
Burdigala | Boor-dee-gah-lah (boor as in “poor”) |
Caelian | Kye-lee-ahn |
Campania | Kam-pah-nee-ah (kam as in “ham”) |
Campus | kam-puss (same then as now) |
Capena | Kap-ay-nah (kap as in “tap”) |
capite censi | kap-it-ayken-see(ken as n “ten”) |
Capua | Kap-oo-ah (oo as in “too”) |
Career | kar-ker |
Carinae | Ka-reen-eye (ka as in “can”) |
Celt | Kelt (as in “spelt”) |
Cercina | Ker-kee-nah (ker as in “her”) |
Charybdis | Kah-rib-dis (rib as in “crib”) |
Cherusci | Ker-oos-kee |
Cilicia | Kill-ick-ee-ah (English, Sill-ish-ah) |
Cimbri | Kim-bree (kirn as in “him”) |
Circei | Ker-kay-ee |
Cloaca | kloh-ah-kah (kloh as in “so”) |
Confarreatio | kon-fah-ray-ah-tee-oh |
Consultant | kon-sool-toom |
Contio | kon-tee-oh |
Corona | kor-oh-nah |
Cottabus | kot-ah-buss (kot-as in “pot”) |
Croesus | Kree-suss |
Culibonia | kool-ee-bon-ee-ah (bon as in “upon”) |
Cumae | Koo-mye |
Cunnus | koo-nuss |
Curia | koo-ree-ah |
cursus honorunt | koor-suss hon-or-oom (hon as in “upon”) |
Curule | koo-rool |
Danae | Dan-ah-ay (dan as in “can”) |
Dignitas | deen-yee-tahss (sibilant ending) |
Domus | dom-uss (dom as in “torn”) |
Druentia | Droo-en-tee-ah |
Epaphroditus | Ep-ah-froh-dee-tuss (English, Ep-afroh-dye-tuss) |
Euxine | Erx-een (English, Yewx-een) |
Fasces | fass-kays (fass as in “lass”) |
Fasti | fah-stee |
Fauces Suburae | Fow-kays (fow as in “cow”) Soo-boo-rye |
Felix | Fay-licks |
Fellator | fell-ah-tor (fell as in “sell”) |
Flamen | flah-men (men as in “ten”) |
flamen Dialis | flah-men Dee-ah-lis |
Flumen | floo-men (floo as in “too”) |
Fortuna | For-too-nah |
Forum | for-oom |
Forum Boarium | Boh-ah-ree-oom |
Forum Frumentarium | Froo-men-tah-ree-oom |
Forum Holitorium | Hol-it-or-ee-oom (hoi as in “doll”) |
Forum Piscinum | Piss-kee-noom |
Forum Romanum | Roh-mah-noom |
Gades | Gah-days |
Gaetuli | Gye-too-lee |
Gallia | Gal-ee-ah (gal as in “pal”) |
Gallia Comata | Com-ah-tah (com as in “torn”) |
Garum | ga-room (ga as in “gap”) |
Garumna | Gah-room-nah |
Gauda | Gow-dah (gow as in “cow”) |
Gens | gens (the g as in “get”—word rhymes with “hens”) |
Germalus | Ger-mah-luss (the g as in “get”—ger as in “her”) |
Germani | Ger-mah-nee (the g as in “get”—ger as in “her”) |
Getorix | Gay-tor-ix (ix as in “six”) |
Halicyae | Hal-ee-kee-eye (hal as in “pal”) |
Hiempsal | Hee-emp-sal |
Hispania | Hiss-pah-nee-ah |
Hispania Citerior | Kit-er-ee-or (kit as in “sit”) |
Hispania Ulterior | Ool-ter-ee-or |
Hubris | hoo-briss |
Lampsas | Yamp-sahss (yamp as in “lamp”) |
Lamus | Yah-muss |
Icosium | Ee-koh-see-oom |
Illyricum | Ill-ir-ee-coom (ir as in “stirrup”) |
Imagines | im-ah-gee-nays (the g as in “gear”) |
Imago | im-ah-goh (im as in “him”) |
Imperator | im-pair-ah-tor |
Imperium | im-pair-ee-oom (English, im-peer-ee-oom) |
Insula | in-soo-lah |
Lol | Yol (as in “doll”) |
Irrumator | irr-oo-mah-tor (irr as in “stir-rup”) |
Iugera | yew-gair-ah |
Iugerum | yew-gair-oom (yew as in “few”) |
Juba | Joo-bah |
Jugurtha | Joo-goor-thah (English, Joo-ger-thuh) |
Julia | Joo-lee-ah |
Julilla | Joo-lil-lah |
Juturna | Joo-toor-nah |
Lares | Lah-rays |
Lares Permarini | Pair-mah-ree-nee |
Lares Praestites | Prye-stit-ays (stit as in “sit”) |
Lautumiae | Low-too-mee-eye (low as in “cow”) |
Licinia | Lick-in-ee-ah |
Lugdunum | Loog-doo-noom |
Macellum | mack-ell-oom (mack as in “tack”) |
Marcia | Mar-kee-ah (English, Marsh-uh or Mar-see-uh) |
Marcomanni | Mar-koh-mah-nee |
Marrucini | Mar-oo-kee-nee (heavy r—mar as in “tar”) |
Marsi | Mar-see |
Masinissa | Mah-sin-iss-ah (sin as in “tin”) |
Mastanabal | Mah-stan-ah-bahl (stan as in “ran”) |
Mauretania | Mow-ret-ah-nee-ah (mow as in “cow”) |
Mentula | men-too-lah (men as in “ten”) |
mentulam coco | men-too-lahm kah-koh |
Metrobius | Met-roh-bee-uss (met as in “set”) |
Micipsa | Mick-ip-sah |
Milo | Mee-loh (English, Mye-loh) |
Misenum | Mee-say-noom |
Mithridates | Mith-rid-ah-tays (English, Mith-rid-ay-tees) |
Muluchath | Moo-loo-kath |
Myrto | Meer-toh |
Nabataea | Nah-bah-tye-ah |
Nabdalsa | Nab-dahl-sah (nab as in “cab”) |
Naevius | Nye-vee-uss |
Narbo | Nor-boh or Nah-boh |
Neapolis | Nay-ah-pol-iss (pol as in “doll”) |
Nefas | neff-ahss (neff as in “left”—ahss as in “arse”) |
Nemo | nay-moh |
Nicopoiis | Nick-op-ol-iss |
Numantia | Noo-man-tee-ah (man as in “man”) |
Numidia | Noo-mid-ee-ah (mid as in “bid”) |
Ocelum | Ock-ell-oom (ock as in “sock”) |
Odysseus | Odd-iss-oos (English, Odd-iss-ee-uss) |
Oedipus | Ee-dee-puss (American, Ed-ee-puss) |
Oppidum | op-id-oom (op as in “hop”—id as in “bid”) |
opus incertum | op-uss in-ker-toom |
Oxyntas | Ox-in-tahss (in as in “sin”) |
Paeligni | Pye-leen-yee |
Pamphylia | Pam-fee-lee-ah (pam as in “ham”) |
Paphlagonia | Paff-la-goh-nee-ah |
Papyrus | pap-eye-russ (pap as in “tap”) |
Patavium | Pat-ah-vee-oom (pat as in “cat”) |
Paterfamilias | pat-er-fam-ill-ee-ahss |
Patrae | Pat-rye |
Penates | Pen-ah-tays (pen as in “ten”) |
Perseus | Per-soos (English, Per-see-uss) |
Phalerae | fal-er-eye (fal as in “pal”) |
Phrygia | Fridge-ee-ah |
Picenum | Pee-kay-noom |
Pilum | pee-loom |
Placentia | Plah-ken-tee-ah |
Plebs | rhymes with “webs” |
Podex | poh-dex (dex as in “sex”) |
Pomerium | poh-mair-ee-oom |
praefectus fabrutn | prye-feck-tuss fab-room (fab as in “cab”) |
Praenomen | prye-noh-men |
Praetor | prye-tor |
praetor peregrinus | pair-egg-ree-nuss |
praetor urbanus | oor-bah-nuss |
primus inter pares | pree-muss in-ter pah-rays |
Princeps Senatus | Prin-keps Sen-ah-tuss |
Priscilla | Priss-kill-ah (English, Priss-ill-uh) |
Privatus | pree-vah-tuss |
Pteryges | terry-gays |
Ptolemy | Tol-em-ee (tol as in “doll”) |
Ptolemy Apion | Ah-pee-on |
Ptolemy Euergetes | Er-air-get-ays |
Puteoli | Poo-tay-oh-lee |
Pyrrhus | Pirr-uss (pirr as in “stirrup”) |
Reate | Ray-ah-tay |
Regia | Ray-gee-ah (the g as in “gear”) |
Remus | Rem-uss (rem as in “hem”—English, Ree-muss) |
Rhenus | Ray-nuss |
Rhodanus | Rod-an-uss (rod as in “cod”) |
Roma | Roh-mah |
Romulus | Roh-moo-luss |
Rostra | roh-strah |
Rusicade | Roo-see-kah-day |
Rutilia | Roo-tee-lee-ah |
Saepta | sye-p-tah |
Sagum | sag-oom (sag as in “hag”) |
saltatrix tonsa |
sal-tah-tricks ton-sah (ton as in “upon”) |
Samnium |
Sam-nee-oom (sam as in “ham”) Satrap sat-rap |
Scordisci | Skor-disk-ee |
Scylax | Skee-lacks (English, Sky-lacks) |
Scylla | Skee-lah (English, Skill-uh or Sill-uh) |
Servilia | Sair-vee-lee-ah (sair as in “air”) |
Servilia Caepionis | Kye-pee-oh-niss |
Smaragdus | smah-rag-duss |
Smyrna | Smeer-nah (English, Smur-nuh—smur as in “fur”) |
Stibium | stib-ee-oom (stib as in “crib”) |
Stimulus | stim-oo-luss (stim as in “dim”) |
Subura | Soo-boo-rah |
Sulpicia | Sool-pick-ee-ah |
Suovetaurilia | soo-of-et-ow-rill-ee-ah |
Syrtis | Seer-tiss (seer as in “leer”) |
Taprobane | Tap-roh-bah-nay |
Tarpeian | Tar-pay-ee-an |
Tata | tah-tah |
Teutobod | Ter-toh-bod (bod as in “cod”) |
Teutones | Ter-toh-nays |
Thermopylae | Ther-mop-ee-lye |
Torc | tork |
Tribuni | trib-oo-nee (trib as in “crib”) |
tribuni aerarii | eye-rah-ree-ee |
tribuni militum | mill-it-oom (mill as in “will”) |
tribuni plebis | pleb-iss (pleb as in “web”) |
Tullianum | Tool-ee-ah-noom |
Tusculum | Tuss-koo-loom (tuss as in “puss”) |
Tyrrhenian | Tir-ray-nee-an (tir as in “stirrup”) |
Ubus | Oo-buss |
Ulysses | Oo-liss-ays (English, Yew-liss-ees) |
Utica | Oo-tee-kah |
Vediovis | Ved-ee-of-iss (ved as in “bed”—of as in “of”) |
Velabrum | Vel-ab-room (vel as in “sell”—ab as in “cab”) |
Velia | Vel-ee-ah |
Vercellae | Ver-kell-eye |
Via | vee-ah |
Via Aemilia | Eye-mill-ee-ah |
Via Aemilia Scauri | Eye-mill-ee-ah Skow-ree (skow as in “cow”) |
Via Annia | Ah-nee-ah |
Via Appia | Ah-pee-ah |
Via Aurelia | Ow-ray-lee-ah (ow as in “cow”) |
Via Domitia | Dom-it-ee-ah (dom as in “tom”—it as in “sit”) |
Via Flaminia | Flam-in-ee-ah (flam as in “ham”) |
Via Lata | Lah-tah |
Via Latina | Lat-ee-nah (lat as in “sat”) |
Via Nova | Noh-vah |
via praetoria | prye-tor-ee-ah |
via principalis | prin-kip-ah-liss |
Via Sacra | Sack-ran |
Via Salaria | Sal-ah-ree-ah (sal as in “pal”) |
Via Tiburtina | Tib-er-tee-nah (lib as in “crib”) |
Vicus | vee-kuss |
Vicus Patricii | Pat-rick-ee-ee (pat as in “sat”) |
Vicus Tuscus | Tuss-kuss (as in “puss”) |
Volcae Tectosages | Vol-kye Teck-toh-sah-gays |
Volscian | Vol-skee-an |