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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contemporary

UK /kənˈtɛm.p(ə.)ɹə.ɹi/ · US /kənˈtɛm.pəˌɹɛɹ.i/ adjective, noun

Forms contemporaries

  1. adjective From the same time period, coexistent in time; contemporaneous.
  2. adjective Modern, of the present age (shorthand for ‘contemporary with the present’).
  3. noun Someone or something belonging to the same time period (as someone or something else) “Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare.”
  4. noun Something existing at the same time.
  5. noun (dated) A rival newspaper or magazine.

Synonyms

coetaneous coeval contemporaneous current modern hodiern de nos jours present present-day coincident cotemporal cotemporaneous modern-day

Antonyms

anachronistic archaic coming noncontemporary uncontemporary

Etymology

From Medieval Latin contemporārius, from Latin con- (“with, together”) + temporārius, an adjective derived from tempus (“time”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.
  2. adjective Of the same age; coeval.
  3. noun One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.

Etymology [Pref. con- + L. temporarius of belonging to time, tempus time. See Temporal, and cf. Contemporaneous.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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