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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canon

/ˈkæn.ən/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of canyon

Forms canons cañones

  1. noun A generally accepted principle; a rule. “The trial must proceed according to the canons of law.”
  2. noun A formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art. “the Canon of Polykleitos”
  3. noun A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
  4. noun The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic. “the entire Shakespearean canon”
  5. noun A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
  6. noun A religious law or body of law decreed by the church. “We must proceed according to canon law.”
  7. noun A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
  8. noun In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
  9. noun A type of clergymember serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
  10. noun A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.
  11. proper noun A surname.
  12. proper noun (Roman Catholicism, with definite article) The Canon of the Mass.
  13. noun (Christianity) Title for a canon. “Canon Smith is our new parish priest.”

Synonyms

French canon canyon

Antonyms

non-canon

Etymology

From Middle English canoun, from Old French canon and Old English canon, both from Latin canōn, from Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn, “measuring rod, standard”), akin to κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Semitic (compare Hebrew קָנֶה (qane, “reed”) and Arabic قَنَاة (qanāh, “reed”)). Doublet of qanun. See also cane, cannon, canyon, canal.

From Middle English canoun, ultimately from Latin canonicus (either by shortening or back-formation from Old English canonic, or via Old Northern French canoine).

From Spanish cañón, spelling it without the diacritics.

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish cañón.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A law or rule.
  2. noun A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority.
  3. noun A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses. [Mexico & Western U. S.]

Etymology [OE. canon, canoun, AS. canon rule (cf. F. canon, LL. canon, and, for sense 7, F. chanoine, LL. canonicus), fr. L. canon a measuring line, rule, model, fr. Gr. Cane, and cf. Canonical.]

Etymology [Sp., a tube or hollow, fr. caña reed, fr. L. canna. See Cane.]

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