Announcing

How to spell announcing

10 letters · 3 syllables

How to pronounce announcing

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does announcing mean?

1. verbMaking something known publicly or formally; declaring news or an event.

Announcing in a sentence

• The company is announcing its quarterly results on Friday.

• A tannoy voice was announcing the next departure to the platform.

Where does announcing come from?

Language of origin: Latin

This word grows from the Latin verb nuntiare, meaning 'to report' or 'to bring news', which itself was built on the noun nuntius, a 'messenger' or 'the message a messenger carries'. The prefix ad-, meaning 'to' or 'toward', combined with this verb to form annuntiare, 'to make something known to people'. English took the word in through Old French anoncier during the 1300s, and the verb 'announce' settled into modern form by the 1500s. The present participle 'announcing' simply adds the -ing ending. The spelling trap lives in the doubled n at the start, an artefact of ad- assimilating into the following n, plus the soft -nce that sounds like a plain s; remembering the messenger nuntius helps keep the two n sounds in place.

How the word is built

• an- (variant of ad-: to, toward)
• nounce (from nuntiare: to report)
• -ing (present participle suffix)