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.

campus

/ˈkæmpəs/ noun, verb

Forms campuses campusses campi campusing campussing campused campussed

noun (often without an article) The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures. “The campus is sixty hectares in size.”
noun An institution of higher education and its ambiance. “During the late 1960s, many an American campus was in a state of turmoil.”
verb To confine (a student) to campus as a punishment.
verb (climbing) To use a campus board, or to climb without feet as one would on a campus board.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of camp and champ.
First used in its current sense in reference to Princeton University in the 1770s.

Etymology [L., a field.]

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