ARTICULATE Copy link • ARTICULATE 1. adj. clarus: planus: explanatus. An articulate voice, vox clara (clear: opposed to obtusa); vox explanabilis (opposed to perturbata. Sen., de Ira, 1, 3, 5). An articulate utterance, osplanum or explanatum (opposed to os confusum). To be an articulate speaker, explanatae esse linguae (after Plin.). 2. v. pronunciare (verba). In Lucr., Apuleius, Arnobius, articulare verba: [has voces] mobilis articulat verborum daedala lingua, Lucr., 4, 551: to learn to articulate, primum fari coepisse (Suet., of children): loqui discere (of beasts, etc.): to teach any body to articulate, aliquem verba edocere; aliquem sermoniassuefacere. To make terms, to treat: de conditionibus tractare or agere (cum aliquo). To draw up in articles, in capita conferre.