Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: baptista
IPA transcription: [b,æpt'ɪstə]
Usage examples
  • Then suddenly Baptista cried--
  • When Baptista came back, he asked at once--
  • But Baptista said the elder daughter must marry first.
  • And Baptista said he was certain his daughter would come.
  • There lived in Padua a gentleman named Baptista, who had two fair daughters.
  • So they journeyed on to Baptista's house, and arriving there, they found all folks keeping Bianca's wedding feast, and that of another newly married couple, Hortensio and his wife.
  • "Well," said Baptista, "you have won the wager, and I will add another twenty thousand crowns to her dowry--another dowry for another daughter--for she is as changed as if she were someone else."