Message: "Re: Yes, I know, but I'm looking for the original, Latin pronunication."

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Re: Yes, I know, but I'm looking for the original, Latin pronunication.

by Elinor (Elly747)

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

- 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).

- Mike C

6/30/2004, 11:48 AM

FYI

In 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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