prōnunc-

prō-nuntĭo ( prōnunc-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a., to make publicly known, to publish, proclaim, announce (cf.: edico, promulgo).

Lit.

In gen.: palam [p. 1467] de sellā ac tribunali pronuntiat, sese ejus nomen recepturum, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 38, § 94:

cum consules amplius de consilii sententiā pronuntiavissent,

id. Brut. 22, 86:

sententiam,

to deliver the verdict, id. Fin. 2, 12, 36:

judex ita pronuntiavit,

pronounced the decision, id. Off. 3, 16, 66:

re auditā, pronuntiare,

id. Fin. 1, 7, 24:

leges,

id. Phil. 1, 10, 24:

signum,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 15:

proelium in posterum diem,

Liv. 24, 14:

iter,

id. 30, 10; Curt. 4, 8, 16; 7, 2, 1:

rem in venundando,

to notify at the time of sale, Cic. Off. 3, 16, 66:

jusserunt pronuntiare, ut, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 5, 33, 3; cf.:

pronuntiare jusserunt, ne quis ab loco discederet,

id. ib. 5, 34:

rerum omnium maximus judex, cujus est non argumentari sed pronuntiare verum,

Lact. 3, 1, 11.—Of a public crier:

pronuntiare victorum nomina,

Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 8; Suet. Dom. 10.—

In partic.

To nominate, appoint as public officer:

aliquem praetorem,

Liv. 24, 27; Suet. Caes. 41.—

To sentence (post-class.); with inf.:

protectores pronuntiati vertere solum in exilio,

Amm. 15, 3, 12; cf.:

ad bestias,

Tert. Res. Carn. 16; Dig. 40, 1, 23.—

To promise, proclaim, offer as a reward:

praemia militi,

Liv. 2, 20; 31, 45:

pecuniam,

Cic. Clu. 29, 78:

tribunis vocatis nummos,

Sen. Ep. 118, 3; Suet. Caes. 19:

militibus donativum,

id. Galb. 16:

beneficia,

id. Ner. 24:

munus populo,

id. Caes. 26:

quippe Darius mille talenta interfectori Alexandri daturum pronuntiari jusserat,

Curt. 3, 5, 15.— Absol.:

pronuntiasse (sc. nummos),

Cic. Planc. 18, 45.—

Transf.

To speak any thing in public, to recite, rehearse, declaim, deliver, pronounce, etc.:

versus multos uno spiritu pronuntiare,

Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 261; 1, 19, 88; 2, 19, 79; id. Div. 2, 5, 14; Auct. Her. 4, 56, 69; Quint. 11, 3, 12 sq.; Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 12 et saep.—

Esp., to act, perform on the stage:

intente instanterque,

Plin. Ep. 5, 19, 16:

actores pronuntiare dicuntur,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 58 Müll.:

Lucceia mima centum annis in scenā pronuntiavit,

Plin. 7, 48, 49, § 158.—

To tell, announce, relate, narrate, report:

cum eam rem scisset et non pronuntiasset,

Cic. Off. 3, 16, 66:

mercatores quibus ex regionibus veniant, pronuntiare cogunt,

Caes. B. G. 4, 5, 2:

quae gesta sunt pronuntiare,

id. ib. 7, 38:

aliquid sincere,

id. ib. 7, 20:

alius jam capta castra pronuntiat,

id. ib. 6, 36.—

To utter, pronounce (cf.:

appello, dico): neque tamen ad particula accentu acuto pronuntiatur,

Gell. 6 (7), 8, 8, §

2: Castorem mediă syllabă productă,

Quint. 1, 5, 60; 9, 4, 34:

verba corrupte,

Gell. 13, 30, 2.—Hence, prōnuntĭātum ( prōnunc-), i, n. In logic, a proposition, axiom; a translation of the Gr. axiôma, Cic. Tusc. 1, 7, 14; cf. Gell. 16, 8, 8.

prō-nuntĭo ( prōnunc-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a., to make publicly known, to publish, proclaim, announce (cf.: edico, promulgo).

Lit.

In gen.: palam [p. 1467] de sellā ac tribunali pronuntiat, sese ejus nomen recepturum, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 38, § 94:

cum consules amplius de consilii sententiā pronuntiavissent,

id. Brut. 22, 86:

sententiam,

to deliver the verdict, id. Fin. 2, 12, 36:

judex ita pronuntiavit,

pronounced the decision, id. Off. 3, 16, 66:

re auditā, pronuntiare,

id. Fin. 1, 7, 24:

leges,

id. Phil. 1, 10, 24:

signum,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 15:

proelium in posterum diem,

Liv. 24, 14:

iter,

id. 30, 10; Curt. 4, 8, 16; 7, 2, 1:

rem in venundando,

to notify at the time of sale, Cic. Off. 3, 16, 66:

jusserunt pronuntiare, ut, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 5, 33, 3; cf.:

pronuntiare jusserunt, ne quis ab loco discederet,

id. ib. 5, 34:

rerum omnium maximus judex, cujus est non argumentari sed pronuntiare verum,

Lact. 3, 1, 11.—Of a public crier:

pronuntiare victorum nomina,

Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 8; Suet. Dom. 10.—

In partic.

To nominate, appoint as public officer:

aliquem praetorem,

Liv. 24, 27; Suet. Caes. 41.—

To sentence (post-class.); with inf.:

protectores pronuntiati vertere solum in exilio,

Amm. 15, 3, 12; cf.:

ad bestias,

Tert. Res. Carn. 16; Dig. 40, 1, 23.—

To promise, proclaim, offer as a reward:

praemia militi,

Liv. 2, 20; 31, 45:

pecuniam,

Cic. Clu. 29, 78:

tribunis vocatis nummos,

Sen. Ep. 118, 3; Suet. Caes. 19:

militibus donativum,

id. Galb. 16:

beneficia,

id. Ner. 24:

munus populo,

id. Caes. 26:

quippe Darius mille talenta interfectori Alexandri daturum pronuntiari jusserat,

Curt. 3, 5, 15.— Absol.:

pronuntiasse (sc. nummos),

Cic. Planc. 18, 45.—

Transf.

To speak any thing in public, to recite, rehearse, declaim, deliver, pronounce, etc.:

versus multos uno spiritu pronuntiare,

Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 261; 1, 19, 88; 2, 19, 79; id. Div. 2, 5, 14; Auct. Her. 4, 56, 69; Quint. 11, 3, 12 sq.; Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 12 et saep.—

Esp., to act, perform on the stage:

intente instanterque,

Plin. Ep. 5, 19, 16:

actores pronuntiare dicuntur,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 58 Müll.:

Lucceia mima centum annis in scenā pronuntiavit,

Plin. 7, 48, 49, § 158.—

To tell, announce, relate, narrate, report:

cum eam rem scisset et non pronuntiasset,

Cic. Off. 3, 16, 66:

mercatores quibus ex regionibus veniant, pronuntiare cogunt,

Caes. B. G. 4, 5, 2:

quae gesta sunt pronuntiare,

id. ib. 7, 38:

aliquid sincere,

id. ib. 7, 20:

alius jam capta castra pronuntiat,

id. ib. 6, 36.—

To utter, pronounce (cf.:

appello, dico): neque tamen ad particula accentu acuto pronuntiatur,

Gell. 6 (7), 8, 8, §

2: Castorem mediă syllabă productă,

Quint. 1, 5, 60; 9, 4, 34:

verba corrupte,

Gell. 13, 30, 2.—Hence, prōnuntĭātum ( prōnunc-), i, n. In logic, a proposition, axiom; a translation of the Gr. axiôma, Cic. Tusc. 1, 7, 14; cf. Gell. 16, 8, 8.

f.

1) ‘toft’, homestead;

Skaði byggvir fornar toptir föður, S. dwells in her father’s old home;

2) a place marked out for a house or building (skyldi þar vera kaupstaðr; hann gaf mönnum toptir til at gera sér þar hús);

3) the mere walls or foundations of a (former) building (út með firðinum eru víða toptir).

* * *

tomt, tupt, toft, tuft; the vowel is short, and toft makes a rhyme to opt (Sighvat), Hr optr, lopt, Skáld H. 6. 8: in mod. pronunc. tótt, cp. Dr. Egilsson’s Poems, p. 95; [the forms in early Swed. and Norse also vary much, tompt, top, toft, Schlyter; the word is identical with Engl. tuft.]

B. A green tuft or knoll, green, grassy place, then generally like mid. Lat. toftum, Engl. toft, a piece of ground, messuage, homestead; en nú Skaði byggir fornar toptir föður, Gm. 11; atgeirs-toptir, poët. ‘halberds-homestead,’ i. e. the hands holding the halberd, Ad.; óðal-toptir, an allodial piece of ground, Fms. vi. (in a verse); ef maðr færir hús frá óðals-tuft, þá skal hann bera einu sinni með vátta tvá á óðals-tuftir, if a man removes a house from its ancient (allodial) ground, N. G. L. i. 379 (v. l. 14, 15); toptar nökkvi, the ‘toft-ship,’ i. e. a house, Ýt.; Hropts sig-toptir, Odin’s homestead of victory, i. e. Walhalla, Vsp.

2. a place marked out for a house or building, a toft; en ef sú kirkja brotnar ok falla hornstafir, þá eigu vér timbri á tuft at koma fyrir tólf mánuðr, bring the timber to the toft within twelve months, N. G. L. i. 7, 8; göra kirkju ok hvergi tuft eyða, build a church, and not lay waste the toft, 8; en ef hón er eigi til, þá skal kaupa tuft þar sem menn vilja svá sem menn meta, purchase a toft where to launch the ship, 100; kirkja á skóg hálfan með tupt ok vexti, Vm. 114; mylnu-hús, tuppt ok grundvöll, D. N. iv. 537, B. K. 55, 57; skyldi þar vera kaupstaðr, hann gaf mönnum toptir til at göra sér þar hús, Hkr. i. 274; hann markaði toptir til garða, ok gaf búondum eðr kaupmönnum, Ó. H. 42; verk Dróttins várs marka topt fyrir verkum órum, Greg. 56.

3. a square piece of ground with walls but without roof (cp. tjalda), this is the special later Icel. sense; Hjörleifr lét göra skála tvá, ok er önnur toptin átján faðma enn önnur nítján, Landn. 35; skógr umb skála-tofst, D.I. i. 475; sér þar tuptina sem hann lét göra hrófit, Ld. 34; en er hús vóru ofan tekin, þá var þar síðan kallat Hrafn-toptir, Eg. 100; út með firðinum eru víða toptir ok vítt land þat er engi maðr á, þar vil ek at vit reisim okkr bústað, Háv. 41; rétt er at kveðja búa at toptum ef búar eru brott farnir, Grág. ii. 124; búðar-tópt, the square walls of a hut without a roof, Rd. 274; toptin var full af torfi ok grjóti, id.; hann lét grafa hann hjá toptum nokkurum, Fs. 141; hús-topt, skála-t., kirkju-t., skemmu-t., fjós-t., fjárhús-t., bæjar-t., nausta-t., the bare walls, ruins of a house, skáli, church …; augna-tópt, eye-socket; svá stóð toptin eptir í varr-símanum at þar var logn, the water in the wake was like a lane, with a wall of waters on both hands, Hkr. i. 283.

prōnuntĭātĭo ( prōnunc-), ōnis, f. [id.].

A public declaration, publication, proclamation:

quā pronuntiatione factā,

Caes. B. C. 2, 25 fin. —Of the decision of a judge, Cic. Clu. 20, 56; Petr. 80; Dig. 48.— Of the proclamation of a public crier, Val. Max. 4, 8, 5.—

Expression, speech:

cujus opera Graeca pronuntiatione strategemata dicuntur,

Val. Max. 7, 4, 1:

certum est, quod ex ipsā pronuntiatione apparet,

Dig. 45, 1, 74.—

In partic.

In rhet., delivery, action, manner, Cic. Inv. 1, 7, 9; Auct. Her. 3, 11, 19:

bona,

id. 3, 15, 27; Quint. 11, 3, 1 et saep.; Suet. Calig. 53; Val. Max. 8, 10, 1; Plin. Ep. 2, 14, 12.—

In logic, a proposition:

quid est, cur non omnis pronuntiatio aut vera aut falsa sit?

Cic. Fat. 11, 26.—

Transf., a single articulate sound:

elementa proprie dicuntur ipsae pronuntiationes,

Prisc. 539 P.

prōnuntĭātor ( prōnunc-), ōris, m., [id.].

One who delivers any thing, a reciter:

meae orationi M. Caesar actor contigit et pronuntiator,

Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 1, 6 Mai.—

In gen., a relater, narrator:

Thucydides rerum gestarum pronuntiator sincerus et grandis etiam fuit,

Cic. Brut. 83, 287.

prōnuntĭātĭo ( prōnunc-), ōnis, f. [id.].

A public declaration, publication, proclamation:

quā pronuntiatione factā,

Caes. B. C. 2, 25 fin. —Of the decision of a judge, Cic. Clu. 20, 56; Petr. 80; Dig. 48.— Of the proclamation of a public crier, Val. Max. 4, 8, 5.—

Expression, speech:

cujus opera Graeca pronuntiatione strategemata dicuntur,

Val. Max. 7, 4, 1:

certum est, quod ex ipsā pronuntiatione apparet,

Dig. 45, 1, 74.—

In partic.

In rhet., delivery, action, manner, Cic. Inv. 1, 7, 9; Auct. Her. 3, 11, 19:

bona,

id. 3, 15, 27; Quint. 11, 3, 1 et saep.; Suet. Calig. 53; Val. Max. 8, 10, 1; Plin. Ep. 2, 14, 12.—

In logic, a proposition:

quid est, cur non omnis pronuntiatio aut vera aut falsa sit?

Cic. Fat. 11, 26.—

Transf., a single articulate sound:

elementa proprie dicuntur ipsae pronuntiationes,

Prisc. 539 P.

prōnuntĭātor ( prōnunc-), ōris, m., [id.].

One who delivers any thing, a reciter:

meae orationi M. Caesar actor contigit et pronuntiator,

Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 1, 6 Mai.—

In gen., a relater, narrator:

Thucydides rerum gestarum pronuntiator sincerus et grandis etiam fuit,

Cic. Brut. 83, 287.