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.

caloric

/kəˈlɒɹɪk/ adjective, noun

adjective Relating to calories. “caloric intake”
adjective Containing calories. “Milk is a caloric beverage.”
adjective Synonym of calorific (“high in calories and thus likely fattening”). “a dry, caloric food”
adjective Synonym of calorific (“relating to or producing heat or other energy”).
noun (historical) The hypothetical medium of heat.

Synonyms

From calorie + -ic. From French calorique, coined by French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin calor (“heat”).

noun The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; --not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat.
adjective Of or pertaining to caloric. Caloric engine, a kind of engine operated air.

Etymology [L. calor heat; cf. F. calorique.]

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