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.

cere

/sɪɚ/ noun, verb

Forms ceres cering cered sere

noun (ornithology) A fleshy, waxy area at the base of the upper beak in certain birds.
verb (transitive) To wax; to cover or close with wax.

Etymology

From Middle English sere, from Old French cire, from Latin cēra (“wax, cere”), or via Latin cērō (“to smear or coat with wax”).

noun The soft naked sheath at the base of the beak of birds of prey, parrots, and some other birds. See Beak.
verb To wax; to cover or close with wax. Wiseman.

Etymology [L. cera wax: cf. F. cire.]

Etymology [L. cerare, fr. cera wax: cf. F. cirer.]

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