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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adventitious

/ˌæd.vənˈtɪʃ.əs/ adjective

Forms adventicious

  1. adjective From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
  2. adjective Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
  3. adjective (genetics, medicine) Not congenital; acquired.
  4. adjective (biology) Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.

Synonyms

extrinsic exogenous accidental spontaneous sporadic incidental coincidental fortuitous serendipitous accidentary by accident by the by casual causeless chanceable lippening occasional random unforeseen unintended

Etymology

From Medieval Latin adventītius (“coming from abroad, extraneous”), a corruption of Latin adventīcius (“foreign, strange, accidental”), from adventus (“arrival, coming, approach, advent”) + -īcius (suffix forming adjectives), from adveniō (“to arrive”) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
  2. adjective Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.

Etymology [L. adventitius.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “adventitious” (best matches first).