pronunciamento

English edit

pronunciamento (plural pronunciamentos)

A manifesto or formal public declaration, originally political; a proclamation. [from 19th c.]
- 1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Grove Press, published 1961, page 6:
  I think of Spengler and of his terrible pronunciamentos, and I wonder if style, style in the grand manner, is done for.
- 2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2008, page 249:
  After assembling an army in Catalonia, he marched on Madrid, issuing en route a pronunciamento calling on the Queen Regent to banish Valenzuela and to accept him as her first minister.
In Mexico and Latin America, an uprising or insurrection. [from 19th c.]
- 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 156:
  [H]e did not want to see Brazil suffer the same fate as those South American countries whose history has been nothing but a succession of barrack-room pronunciamentos.

pronunciamento m (plural pronunciamenti)

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /pɾo.nũ.si.aˈmẽ.tu/ [pɾo.nũ.sɪ.aˈmẽ.tu], (faster pronunciation) /pɾo.nũ.sjaˈmẽ.tu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /pɾo.nũ.si.aˈmẽ.to/ [pɾo.nũ.sɪ.aˈmẽ.to], (faster pronunciation) /pɾo.nũ.sjaˈmẽ.to/

pronunciamento m (plural pronunciamentos)

pronouncement; proclamation (formal public announcement)
Synonym: proclamação
(phonology) pronunciation (the act of speaking a word or phoneme)
Synonyms: pronúncia, pronunciação

pronunciamento n (plural pronunciamentouri)

Declension of pronunciamento

pronunciamento in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

pronunciamento m (plural pronunciamentos)