Klryz
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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brute

UK /bɹuːt/ · US /bɹut/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms brutes bruting bruted

  1. adjective Without reason or intelligence (of animals). “a brute beast”
  2. adjective Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
  3. adjective Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless. “the brute earth; the brute powers of nature”
  4. adjective Crude, unpolished.
  5. adjective Strong, blunt, and spontaneous; being purely physical in nature. “I got the door open through brute force.”
  6. adjective Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless, without intelligence or reason. “brute violence”
  7. noun (archaic) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.
  8. noun A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person, particularly one who is dim-witted. “One of them was a hulking brute of a man, heavily tattooed and with a hardened face that practically screamed "I just got out of jail."”
  9. noun (film, television) A kind of powerful spotlight.
  10. noun (archaic, UK, Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.
  11. verb (transitive) To shape (diamonds) by grinding them against each other.

Synonyms

beast wolf savage wildcat animal animate being creature fauna beastly bestial brutish brutal

Etymology

From Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin brūtus (“dull, stupid, insensible”), an Oscan loanword, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”). Cognate with Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús), Persian گران (gerân) and Sanskrit गुरु (gurú) (English guru).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.
  2. adjective Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.
  3. noun An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.
  4. noun A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.

Etymology [F. brut, nasc., brute, fem., raw, rough, rude, brutish, L. brutus stupid, irrational: cf. It. & Sp. bruto.]

Etymology [For bruit.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “brute” (best matches first).

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