Origin: Latin suffix -tion
Pronunciation has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
the manner in which someone utters a word
"they are always correcting my pronunciation"
the way a word or a language is customarily spoken
"the pronunciation of Chinese is difficult for foreigners"
"that is the correct pronunciation"
The formal or informal way in which a word is made to sound when spoken.
"The teacher spent the whole class correcting my pronunciation of difficult French words so I could say them correctly."
The word comes from Latin pronuntiatio, which originally meant "a proclamation." It is built from the verb pronuntiare ("to proclaim"), combining prō- ("for") and nūntiāre ("to announce").