[Kozak]

It’s pronounced “Raymond Luxury Yacht”.

[yarddog]

I have no idea what is the proper pronunciation but I have heard it many times and it was always Skip ee owe.

[Bosco]

Short answer from my classical language summa cum laude brother: there isn't a proper/correct pronunciation because Latin is a dead language - no one has a recording of it.

Closest thing would be church Latin, and we're not sure about that.

[the invisib1e hand]

scipio. just like it’s spelled.

[ferri]

sip'ēō ăfrikā'nus

[ReagansShinyHair]

I knew a guy with that last name and it was sip-ee-oh. The C was silent.

[Robwin]

In classical Latin it would be: Skip (hard c, short i, as we say skip) e(long e) o(long o) Afrikan (hard c, otherwise as we say African) us (short u).Quite a guy, too. Take that, you Hannibal you.

[ConorMacNessa]

I'm not sure, but I think it's pronounced as an unvoiced sibilant - i.e. "S".

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[freedumb2003]

O-wa
Ta-jer
Khiam

[Fiji Hill]

In classical Latin, it would be pronounced, “skippy yo off row con oos”

[Robwin]

Hmmm this thread is starting to sound like the lady who asked her fellow airline passenger how to pronounce “Hawaii” which she was flying to visit.

“HaViee”, he tells her. She says, “Oh, thank you.”

He responds, “You’re velcome”.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Skih-pee-oh Aa-frih-cah-nus

[cripplecreek]

Oh Stewardess, I speak jive.

[PGR88]

I once heard B.H. Liddell Hart, who I rank as one of the greatest military historians ever, pronounce it SKIP EE OH.

Liddell Hart wrote an entire book about Scipio Africanus.

[tophat9000]

In the movie "Gladiator" it was pronounce Skip-pee-o

[fieldmarshaldj]

"I wanna toucha de -anus..."

[Billthedrill]

I used to call him "Bob" until he gutted me with his gladius.

I got better.

[rmlew]

Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus has the proper pronunciation. However given his screen name, I thought he would not the obvious; you are using his cognomen (family name within clan) and agnomen (nickname, or in this case laudatory title_. His name was Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus. There is a second Scipio Africanus, Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Numantinus , the adoptive grandson of the first Scipio Africanus. The first was given the lauditory agnomen at the defeat of Carthage in the Second Punic War. The younger recieved it for defeating and then destroying Carthage in the Third Punic war.

(Somewhere, my grammar school Latin teacher is smiling.)

[JRios1968]

Can anyone give the proper pronounciation for "Scipio", as in Scipio Africanus?