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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

articulação

Pronunciation / Transliteration: articulação

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Articulation/ɑːrˌtɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #4500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A articulação correta das palavras melhora a fala."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The action of putting into words; the formation of clear and distinct sounds in speech.

    "Her clear articulation made her easy to understand from the back of the auditorium."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'articulatio', meaning a joint or division into joints, stemming from 'articulus' (diminutive of artus, meaning joint). During the late Middle English period, it evolved semantically to encompass the clear utterance of speech sounds and the way distinct parts are connected in mechanical or anatomical contexts.

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