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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

catholic

/ˈkæ.θ(ə.)lɪk/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms Catholics

  1. adjective Universal; all-encompassing.
  2. adjective (obsolete) Common or prevalent; especially universally prevalent.
  3. adjective (usually of people and their feelings, tastes, etc.) All-embracing.
  4. adjective (of medicines or remedies, obsolete) Universally applicable.
  5. adjective Of universal human interest or use.
  6. adjective Of the Western Christian church, as differentiated from e.g. the Orthodox church. “Christmas is celebrated at different dates in the Catholic and Orthodox calendars.”
  7. adjective Of the Roman Catholic church in particular. “The Church of the Sacred Heart is a Catholic one.”
  8. noun A member of a Catholic (western Christian) church.
  9. noun (elliptically, often) A member of the Roman Catholic Church (which is also elliptically called the Catholic Church). “The wife of the Prime Minister is a Catholic.”
  10. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

universal common ecumenical general generic nonsingular nonspecific unparticular unsingular unspecific across-the-board all around all-embracing all-encompassing blanket broad thick comprehensive exhaustive overall

Etymology

From Old French catholique, from Latin catholicus, from Ancient Greek καθολικός (katholikós, “universal”), from κατά (katá, “according to”) + ὅλος (hólos, “whole”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Universal or general; as, the catholic faith.
  2. adjective Not narrow-minded, partial, or bigoted; liberal; as, catholic tastes.
  3. noun A person who accepts the creeds which are received in common by all parts of the orthodox Christian church.
  4. noun An adherent of the Roman Catholic church; a Roman Catholic. Old Catholic, the name assumed in 1870 by members of the Roman Catholic church, who denied the ecumenical character of the Vatican Council, and Rejected its decrees, esp. that concerning the infallibility of the pope, as contrary to the ancient Catholic faith.

Etymology [L. catholicus, Gr. solid: cf. F. catholique.]

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