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Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

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

Marks

  • 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)

Common word endings

  • -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.

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viola

UK /ˈviː.ələ/ · US /vaɪˈoʊlə/ noun, proper noun

Forms violas viole

  1. noun (botany) Any of several flowering plants, of the genus Viola, including the violets and pansies.
  2. noun A stringed instrument of the violin family, somewhat larger than a violin, played under the chin, and having a deeper tone.
  3. noun A person who plays the viola.
  4. noun (music) An organ stop having a similar tone.
  5. noun (music) A 10-string steel-string acoustic guitar, used in Brazilian folk music.
  6. noun (music) A berimbau viola, the smallest member of the berimbau used in capoeira music.
  7. proper noun A female given name from Latin.
  8. proper noun A comune in Cuneo province, Piedmont, Italy.
  9. proper noun A town in Fulton County, Arkansas.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community in Shasta County, California.
  11. proper noun A town in Kent County, Delaware.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Heard County, Georgia.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Latah County, Idaho.
  14. proper noun A village in Greene Township, Mercer County, Illinois.

Synonyms

genus Viola

Etymology

From Latin viola (“violet”).

From Italian viola, from Old Occitan viola (modern Occitan viula), from Medieval Latin vitula (“stringed instrument”), possibly from Frankish *fiþulā (“violin, fiddle”). Doublet of viol. Also possibly a doublet of fiddle.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A genus of polypetalous herbaceous plants, including all kinds of violets.
  2. noun An instrument in form and use resembling the violin, but larger, and a fifth lower in compass. Viola da braccio Etym: [It., viol for the arm], the tenor viol, or viola, a fifth lower than the violin. Its part is written in the alto clef, hence it is sometimes called the alto.

Etymology [L., a violet. See Violet.]

Etymology [It. See Viol.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “viola”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details