For Latinists: how do you pronounce "cui"?

[JesuXPIPassio]

I’m trying to learn Latin. These days, there just aren’t classes or tutors for it around, even though I’ve always gone to Catholic schools, so I’m just doing it through books.

How does one pronounce the word “cui”? Is it like “cuy” or is it like the way you pronounce “qui”?

 

[tee_eff_em]

Two syllables: koo-ee. (*Qui *is a single syllable: kwee)

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[JesuXPIPassio]

Two syllables: koo-ee. (*Qui *is a single syllable: kwee)

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Thanks. I really needed that.

 

[Ite_ad_Ioseph]

Random follow up- how do you pronounce ‘z’? I don’t see it in many Latin words at all. In Italian it’s ‘ts’, I think, but that’s unvoiced, so I’m confused.
Pax

 

[tee_eff_em]

Random follow up- how do you pronounce ‘z’? I don’t see it in many Latin words at all. In Italian it’s ‘ts’, I think, but that’s unvoiced, so I’m confused.
Pax

[post=2589753]Pronunciation guides[/post] generally say to pronounce it as dz. *Z *in Latin usually indicates a borrowing from Greek, and this is an imitation of the Greek sound?

Even the Latin word for “god”, deus, is said to derive from the Greek name of the chief of the gods, Zeus!

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[JesuXPIPassio]

Random follow up- how do you pronounce ‘z’? I don’t see it in many Latin words at all. In Italian it’s ‘ts’, I think, but that’s unvoiced, so I’m confused.
Pax

It’s sort of a cross between the Italian way of saying it and the English. It’s more pronounced like “dz.”

Or at least that’s how it is in Ecclesiastical Latin. I never really got into Classical Latin and it might differ a bit.