Pronunciation of "Sinaiticus" etc.

Stephen C. Carlson scarlson at mindspring.com
Sun Oct 13 15:28:53 EDT 2002


At 08:06 AM 10/13/02 -0400, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>I think that Jim's question is quite appropriate for list responses. If
>Sinaiticus hasn't been discussed on B-Greek, it's probably because we don't
>do textual criticism on B-Greek. I did a quick check for a web resource
>indicating pronunciation of "Sinaiticus" but could find, surprisingly,
>nothing. Does anyone know of a site or two that offers a pronunciation
>guide for terms that a student of the GNT might find useful?

Throckmorton's GOSPEL PARALLELS has a pronunication guide of many
terms on p. ix.  He indicates that "Sinaiticus" is pronounced like
"sine-a-IHT-ih-cuhs" (I can't reproduce his symbols, so I'm using
mine own), with the first syllable having a long I (like eye), and
the accent on the third syllable from the end, which has a short I
as in BIT.

Other codex related names are, according to Throckmorton: Alexandrinus
(al-ihg-zan-DRY-nuhs), Bezae (BAY-zee), Koridethi (kore-ih-DAY-thee),
minuscule (MIHN-uhs-kule), uncial (UHN-shull), and Vaticanus
(vat-ih-KAY-nuhs).

Stephen Carlson
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