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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cathedral

UK /kəˈθiːdɹəl/ · US /kəˈθidɹəl/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms cathedrals the Cathedral

  1. adjective Relating to the office of a bishop or an archbishop.
  2. noun The principal church serving as the office (and some as place of residence) of an archdiocese's/a diocese's archbishop/bishop which is symbolized by an episcopal throne known as the cathedra. “The bishop presided over the ceremony from his seat in the cathedral.”
  3. noun (loosely or informally) A large or important church building.
  4. noun (figurative) A large, impressive, lofty, and/or important building or place of some other kind. “a cathedral of commerce”
  5. noun A large buttressed structure built by certain termites.
  6. proper noun (US politics, Dark Enlightenment and libertarianism, neologism) The mainstream system or establishment in society, regarded as liberal or leftist.

Synonyms

duomo

Etymology

From Middle English cathedral, chathedral, cathiderall, from Old French [Term?], from Latin cathedrālis, from cathedra + -ālis, from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathédra, “chair of a teacher, throne”).

Ellipsis of cathedral church, from Middle English chirche cathederall, cathedrall chirch, calque of Late Latin ecclēsia cathedrālis (“church serving as the bishop's or archbishop's office”), from Latin ecclēsia + cathedrālis. Displaced Old English hēafodċiriċe (literally “main church, head church”).

From cathedral. Coined by American far-right political theorist and computer scientist Curtis Yarvin, writing as Mencius Moldbug.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The principal church in a diocese, so called because in it the bishop has his official chair (Cathedra) or throne.
  2. adjective Pertaining to the head church of a diocese; as, a cathedral church; cathedral service.
  3. adjective Emanating from the chair of office, as of a pope or bishop; official; authoritative.

Etymology [LL. cathedralis (sc. ecclesia): cf. F. cathédrale. See Cathedra.]

Etymology [LL. cathedralis: cf. F. cathédral.]

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