How do you pronounce this? It's latin?

Question

the phrase is : lux lucet in tenebris. i need it typed phoentecially please

Answer 1

If you wanted to pronounce this like an ancient Roman, then getting the stresses in the right places, and the vowel quantities right would be important, and this is quite tricky to explain in words. The mediaeval/church pronunciation is much easier, as only the stresses are bothered with, not the quantities, and the circumflex is ignored/equated with the acute.
Here goes:

the u in lux is long by position, and it takes an acute accent over the long u, so is pronounced much like the English word "looks", but with a slightly longer loooks sound.
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The u in lucet takes the circumflex, however, as it is long by nature. A Roman would have given a slight up-down stress on the u, which would be pronounced like the oo in looks, but quite a bit longer. loo^ook et

'in' is unstressed, pronounced much like an English "in" with a slightly longer i.

The first e in tenebris is short, like in the English word "ten", the second e is long and it takes a circumflex accent, as the vowel is followed by a mute-liquid. (br). Once again, the e is lengthened, with a slight up-down tone on the e.
ten-e^e-bris
Everything should sound crisp, with no aspirations. The unstressed syllables have a slight downward stress, so the voice drops at the end of lucet and at the end of tenebris.

Pronouncing it like that would probably have pleased Cicero.
so:
looks loo^ook-et in ten-e^ebris

As Cicero said " est in dicendo etiam quidam cantus obscurior" - roughly paraphrased as "speaking (Latin obviously) has a certain musicality to it" . You need to speak Latin with a very open mouth.

Answer 2

Lux Lucet in Tenebris is accurately pronounced as Lukes Loo CHAY in ten uh briss....The previous answers are mostly correct, however, it appears that the above people do not have much experience speaking latin. The Roman church preserved conversational latin in the form of the mass for thousands of years. However Lucet is not pronounced properly in any of the previous answers....the key to pronouncing Lucet correctly is that Latin and Italian are quite similar in some areas. The C in Lucet is pronounced like the C in Luciano Pavarotti.....Luciano is pornouonced Loo Chee Ah No NOT Loo Chet Ah No... so Lucet is pronounced LOO CHAY not LOO CHET based on speaking Latin since childhood for 50 years.

Answer 3

Also possible is:

looks loohtset in tenebris

oo as in looks (short)
ooh as in boots (long)
e like in elevator (first e)
i like in "in" or "is"

There are always discussions on how to pronounce the letter "c" in Latin either generally as "k" or only as "k" if it stands before a, o, u and as "ts" before "i" and "e" - the latter mentioned pronounciation is probably the newer one and influenced most latin based languages like French, Italian, Spanish etc. which basically have the same rules for pronouncing "c" (or "g")

Answer 4

Lux Lucet In Tenebris

Answer 5

An Italian teacher of latin would say: Loo.cs loo'.chet een tèh.neh.bris
a German : "loo.ket"

the prevailing pronounce is the first one

Answer 6

"looks lookeht een tehnehbrees"

oo -- the 'oo' of boom
eh -- the vowel of let
ee - the 'ee' of meet

This is the classical Roman pronunciation.

It means, by the way, "a light shines in the darkness."

Answer 7

lucet