How does one say "Sanguinius"

[Parcival]

Listen to the audio book. It's San-gween-eh-us.

 

That's the anglicised pronunciation as Brother Hadafix explained. This kind of pronunciation is ok, but if you want to stick to the Latin original, you have to pronounce it the way I described it. It really just depends on what you want. However, because something is in an audiobook it doesn't mean it's the single truth/authority.

[Brother Leonitus Arezzo]

I pronounce it SAN-gwin-us. I drop the i in the last syllable as is sounds to me like Sang-winnie-us the Pooh.

[Mattsama]

I've always pronounced it BAMF!

[Sadetta]

i think san-gwin-ee-us would be fine because Jawaballs always say it that way in some of his videos.

[Chaplain Haladriel]

I find the way he says it is rather irritating actually. Which is the very reason I am writing here. I looked up the correct way to pronounce it and it is not San-GWEEN-E-us. When one "exsanguinates" someone it is pronounced EX-SANG-WIN-NATE. Maybe its the difference between the Anglo and American versions of English, but to me it does not sound very noble when it comes out SANG-WEEN-I-US sounds far to close to weenie. :)

[Brother_Byhlli]

I would expect it to sound exactly like the word sanguineous, which can mean involving much bloodshed.

 

(Follow the link, you can hear audio of the pronunciation)

 

This.

 

Edit: though, I believe that if you wanted to be particularly correct, the "ius" sound at the end would more accurately be "ee-oos", giving you: "san-gwin-ee-oos". For myself, that sounds put-on, though. I prefer the way the woman says it in the link.

[Demoulius]

I always thought it was : san-gwin-ee-us

me to :)

[Enzephalon]

Actually I think the "u" is silent. The word does come etymologically from Latin. In most Latin or Romance languages if the letter "g" is followed by either "i" or "e" and you want the "g" to have a hard guttural sound you add the letter "u" before that "i" or "e". If there were no "u" between them the "g" would sound like an English "j". So I have always pronounced it: "san-gee-nee-o-us" with the "gee" having a hard "g" sound as in the word "geese". Just my dos centavos.

 

Bravo-52

Basically it's right what you said, but keep in mind that in the word Sanguinius the G is followed by a U, so nothing is silent.

In fact Parcival is right. In principle you pronounce every letter for itself. It's difficult for english native speakers (I'm austrian so I speak german) but that's the way to do it the latin/roman whatever way. Every other variant is a fitting to the english language.

[Morollan]

No, no. It's spelled Sanguinius but it's pronounced Throat Wobbler Mangrove.

[Castiel]

I always thought it was : san-gwin-ee-us

 

 

I would expect it to sound exactly like the word sanguineous, which can mean involving much bloodshed.

 

(Follow the link, you can hear audio of the pronunciation)

 

I would say it like these.

[SnorriSnorrison]

Sang- u- ini- us

 

That's how I learned it at school(well, about the pronounciation, not about our Primarch sadly :P ). Pronounce every syllable seperately and slowly. Then, speak in normal tempo.

 

Sangui-nius

One break, where the dash is, to give an accent to the word rather than swallowing half of the letters.

 

However, this would be the straight pronounciation of the German language.

 

In English, I'd say:

 

Sangwee-neeüs. The two points above the 'u'(which is an actual letter in german with its own sound) indicate that it is spoken seperately, and not in one go with the 'ee'.

 

 

Snorri