Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

biceps

/ˈbaɪ.sɛps/ noun

Forms bicepses bicipites

noun (anatomy) Any muscle having two heads.
noun Specifically, the biceps brachii, the flexor of the elbow.
noun (informal) The upper arm, especially the collective muscles of the upper arm.
noun (prosody) A point in a metrical pattern that can be filled either with one long syllable (a longum) or two short syllables (two brevia).

Synonyms

Derived from Latin biceps (“double-headed, two-peaked”), from bis (“twice”) + -ceps (“headed”).

Etymology [L., two-headed; bis twice + caput head. See Capital.]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “biceps”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details