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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adamantine

UK /ˌædəˈmæntaɪn/ · US /ˌædəˈmænˌtaɪn/ adjective, noun

  1. adjective Made of adamant (“an unspecified mineral or rock of virtually impenetrable hardness”).
  2. adjective Incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; impenetrable, unbreakable. “adamantine bonds    adamantine chains”
  3. adjective Difficult to defeat or prevail over; unshakable, unyielding.
  4. adjective Of a person: refusing to change one's mind; obstinate, stubborn.
  5. adjective (obsolete) Having the quality of attracting or drawing; attractive, magnetic.
  6. adjective (chiefly mineralogy) Like diamond in lustre; bright, lustrous, shiny; also, of a lustre: like that of a mineral with a high refractive index such as diamond.
  7. noun (fiction, also attributive) Synonym of adamantium (“a fictional metal which is indestructible or nearly so”).

Synonyms

immovable impregnable indomitable inextinguishable inexpugnable insuperable insuppressible insurmountable invincible inviolate never-say-die unbeatable unconquerable unquenchable unsinkable unsubduable unsurmountable unsuppressible unvanquishable unyielding adamant inexorable intransigent

Etymology

From Middle English adamantine, adamantyne, adamauntyn (“(adjective) of adamant; (noun) adamant”), from Anglo-Norman adamantin and Middle French adamantin (“of or resembling adamant or diamond”) (modern French adamantin), and from its etymon Latin adamantinus (“adamantine”), from Ancient Greek ἀδᾰμάντῐνος (adămántĭnos, “hard as adamant; made of steel”), from ᾰ̓δᾰμᾰντ- (ădămănt-) (a stem of ἀδάμᾱς (adámās, “the hardest metal (probably steel); diamond”), possibly originally Semitic) + -ῐνος (-ĭnos, suffix meaning ‘made of’ forming adjectives). By surface analysis, adamant + -ine (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives).
Etymology 1, adjective sense 1.2.4 (“having the quality of attracting or drawing”) and etymology 1, adjective sense 2 (“like diamond in lustre; etc.”) refer to adamant (“(archaic) lodestone; (historical, poetic) diamond”).

Possibly from adamantium + -ine (suffix forming the names of chemical substances or materials).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.
  2. adjective Like the diamond in hardness or luster.

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