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

commensurable

adjective

  1. adjective Able to be measured using a common standard. “A yard and a foot are commensurable, as both may be measured by inches.”
  2. adjective Related in size or scale; commensurate or proportionate. “His salary is commensurable to his ability.”
  3. adjective (mathematics) (of two or more numbers) Divisible by the same number ᵂᴾ “The numbers 12 and 18 are commensurable, as both are divisible by 6, while 12 and 19 are incommensurable.”

Antonyms

incommensurable

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin Latin commensurabilis (“having a common measure”) in 1550s, from Latin com- (“with”) + mensurabilis (“measurable”). Equivalent to com- + mensurable.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having a common measure; capable of being exactly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure.

Etymology [L. commensurabilis; pref. com- + mensurable. See Commensurate, and cf. Commeasurable.]

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