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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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violet

/ˈvaɪ.ə.lət/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms violets violeter violetest

  1. noun A plant or flower of the genus Viola, especially the fragrant Viola odorata; (inexact) similar-looking plants and flowers.
  2. noun (figurative) A person thought to resemble V. odorata, especially in its beauty and delicacy.
  3. noun The color of most violets; the colour evoked by the shortest visible wavelengths between 380 and 435 nm, an additive tertiary colour.
  4. noun Clothes and (ecclesiastical) vestments of such a colour.
  5. noun (perfumes) The characteristic scent of V. odorata.
  6. noun (UK dialect) Synonym of onion (“vegetable”).
  7. adjective Of a violet colour.
  8. proper noun A female given name from English.
  9. proper noun A surname.
  10. proper noun A census-designated place in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana.
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Nueces County, Texas.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.
  14. proper noun A community in Loyalist, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada.

Synonyms

rooster onion fuchsia indigo magenta purple rose thistle ultraviolet reddish blue purplish

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English violet, vyolet, vyolette, from Old French violette, from Latin viola (“violet”) + -ette. Cognate with Lithuanian violetinė (“purple, violet”) and Spanish violeta (“purple, violet”).

A 19th century flower name from violet, sometimes as an anglicisation of the earlier French Violette.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species. The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or of several colors, as the pansy (Viola tricolor).
  2. noun The color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. It is the most refrangible part of the spectrum.
  3. adjective Dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color produced by red and blue combined. Violet shell (Zoöl.), any species of Ianthina; --called also violet snail. See Lanthina.

Etymology [F. violette a violet (cf. violet violet-colored), dim. of OF. viole a violet, L. viola; akin to Gr. Iodine.]

Etymology [Cf. F. violet. See Violet, n.]

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