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Sow-row-ree-tahs?
so-roar-ee-tahs?
Soar-ee-tah?

No clue help!

Ever heard of a Sorority for a University or College? Change the "Tee" sound to a "Tass" sound.

So-roh-rih-tas.
I think.

So-roar-eh-tahs?

That sounds like cartman saying sororitys lol.

Animus wrote:
So-roh-rih-tas.
I think.

This

 Arcsquad12 wrote:
Ever heard of a Sorority for a University or College? Change the "Tee" sound to a "Tass" sound.

This. I don't see how anyone can pronounce it any of the other ways the OP proposed unless they were seriously challenged.

sɒrɒrɪtæs - the 's' as in 'sigh', the 'or' as in 'for', the 'or' as in 'for', the 't' as in 'hit' then the 'as' as in 'mass'.

ソロリタス (bearing in mind the habit of chopping off the vowel on the last syllable).

Suh row rit tuhs

Literally the same as a Sorority, with the last syllable changed.

 Furyou Miko wrote:
sɒrɒrɪtæs - the 's' as in 'sigh', the 'or' as in 'for', the 'or' as in 'for', the 't' as in 'hit' then the 'as' as in 'mass'.

ソロリタス (bearing in mind the habit of chopping off the vowel on the last syllable).

wouldn't sərɔrətəs also be possible?

However you think it should be pronounced.

Differences in accent are going to affect how you say anything.

There's no singular right way to say a word, because accents come into play. Take bath, for example. Some accents pronounce it with an extended "a" phoneme, some with a more brief "a".

So[i]ro[i]ritas
Soro[i]ri[i]tas

Same word, just pronounced differently. There is no right or wrong way.

 Iron_Captain wrote:

wouldn't sərɔrətəs also be possible?

I transliterate that as 'saroratas, which sounds... New Yorkery more than anything else. lol.

If in doubt pronounce it:

Sisters of Battle.

I thank you.

Its latin...so use according pronounciation...

It's really not latin though.

 Furyou Miko wrote:
It's really not latin though.

Are you sure? I went from soror which is latin for sister and from that its medieval modification sorōritās.

 Arcsquad12 wrote:
Ever heard of a Sorority for a University or College? Change the "Tee" sound to a "Tass" sound.

This ^

 UlrikDecado wrote:

 Furyou Miko wrote:
It's really not latin though.

Are you sure? I went from soror which is latin for sister and from that its medieval modification sorōritās.

It's pseudo latin.

If you translate it, it doesn't make that much sense. Adepta, for example, means "Obtained." Which in context, doesn't make that much sense.

It's really not Latin but is "High Gothic". I think this has been discussed in a previous thread.

Adepta is an attempt to put a feminine sounding ending on Adeptus - which I believe is gender neutral (happy to be corrected).

Soror means sister, Sororitas doesn't mean anything in Latin.

Well, I guess when its derived from latin, pronounciation should/ could be same (definetly not english IMO, but whatever)

Looks like Sorrow-ritters to me.

Like Margaritas.

Except replace Marga, with Sore-O, at least that;s how I pronounce it.

The English word it's based on is "sorority"... so use that as your starting point and change as needed.

Adepta Sororitas: Ah-DEP-ta SO-ror-ih-TAS

1.) The word is "High Gothic" which is an in-universe language similar to Latin.
2.) Sororitas is not a Latin word, the correct word would be "sororities". But it is certainly derived from the Latin word soror for sister.
3.) There is no direct source how Latin words were originally pronounced, only poems and languages derived from Latin (esp. Italian and Church Latin) give a clue. Even in the Roman Empire, there would have certainly been different pronounciations.
4.) American pronounciation tends to add or change vocals (in this case change the first O to something different) and use a guttural R not used in the languages closest to Latin. In Italian, French or German we would just say, pronounce it as it is written.
5.) In the end use any pronounciation that people will understand.

 Kroothawk wrote:
1.) The word is "High Gothic" which is an in-universe language similar to Latin.
2.) Sororitas is not a Latin word, the correct word would be "sororities". But it is certainly derived from the Latin word soror for sister.
3.) There is no direct source how Latin words were originally pronounced, only poems and languages derived from Latin (esp. Italian and Church Latin) give a clue. Even in the Roman Empire, there would have certainly been different pronounciations.
4.) American pronounciation tends to add or change vocals (in this case change the first O to something different) and use a guttural R not used in the languages closest to Latin. In Italian, French or German we would just say, pronounce it as it is written.
5.) In the end use any pronounciation that people will understand.

I fully agree with you post, but the only nitpicky criticism I have is that your post seems to imply that German is closer to Latin than (American)English, while English is actually more closely related to Latin than German is.

Also, High Gothic isn't even an actual language of any kind, it is just Latin sounding gibberish.

In the end, the pronounciation depends on your native language and regional dialect.

I pronounce it...

Soh (As in the word So)-- roh (as in the word Row)-- rit (as in a basic are followed by the word It)-- ahs (as in the word Toss, but with a slightly different inflection).

But this is my own Texan dialect infecting it.

Yeah, because 'toss' in a normal accent (I'm teasing!) is in no way pronounced like something spelled with an 'a'.

English is a horrible combination of romance and germanic languages, mixed up with bits and pieces of whatever people felt like in the past.

 Melissia wrote:
I pronounce it...

Soh (As in the word So)-- roh (as in the word Row)-- rit (as in a basic are followed by the word It)-- ahs (as in the word Toss, but with a slightly different inflection).

But this is my own Texan dialect infecting it.

It certainly reads like a Southern drawl...

Yeah, because 'toss' in a normal accent (I'm teasing!) is in no way pronounced like something spelled with an 'a'.

It kind of does, since the "tas" of "Sororitas" sounds more like "toss" than it does "taz". "Sororitas" also does not rhyme with "margaritas".

Nope. Definitely more like Tassel than toss.

I mean, it's not Sororitarse.

Animus wrote:
So-roh-rih-tas.
I think.

Yep came here to write the exact same thing

"Sorry-tas".

A play on words, given to them by Games Workshop in regards to how poorly they've been treated as a faction.