Provençal first name

Batisto

Baptiste

Masculine first name · Mistralian spelling · is said « batisto »

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How to pronounce Batisto

Three notations of the same pronunciation: the tonic stress, the spelled-out reading, and the phonetic alphabet. Lean on the accent of the Midi to read them: say them the way Provence speaks, sounding out every syllable and every e, and you will land very close to the right form.

Tonic stress ba-TIS-to The syllable in capitals carries the tonic stress: it is said more strongly than the others.
Say it « batisto » Spelled-out pronunciation: read this sequence of letters as if it were French, and you will say Batisto.
Phonetic alphabet [baˈtistɔ] Transcription in the international phonetic alphabet, for those who can read it.

French equivalent

  • Baptiste

Variants

  • Batistet
  • Batistin
  • Tistet
  • Tistin
  • Titin

The reading rules that give this pronunciation are set out in detail on the How to pronounce Provençal page.