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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counterfeit

UK /ˈkawntəˌfɪt/ · US /ˈkaʊn.tɚˌfɪt/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms counterfeits counterfeiting counterfeited

  1. adjective False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine. “This counterfeit watch looks like the real thing, but it broke a week after I bought it.”
  2. adjective Inauthentic. “counterfeit sympathy”
  3. adjective Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical.
  4. noun A non-genuine article; a fake.
  5. noun One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.
  6. noun (obsolete) That which resembles another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
  7. noun (obsolete) An impostor; a cheat.
  8. verb (transitive) To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of. “to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc.”
  9. verb (transitive, obsolete) To produce a faithful copy of.
  10. verb (transitive, obsolete) To feign; to mimic. “to counterfeit the voice of another person”
  11. verb (transitive, poker, usually "be counterfeited") Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand by making a better hand on the board.

Synonyms

forgery forge fake imitative

Antonyms

genuine

Etymology

From Middle English counterfeit, countrefet, from Anglo-Norman countrefait, from Old French contrefait, from Latin contra- (“against”) + Latin facere (“to make”). Piecewise doublet of contrafactum.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed.
  2. adjective Fabricated in imitation of something else, with a view to defraud by passing the false copy for genuine or original; as, counterfeit antiques; counterfeit coin. "No counterfeit gem." Robinson (More's Utopia).
  3. noun That which resembles or is like another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
  4. noun That which is made in imitation of something, with a view to deceive by passing the false for the true; as, the bank note was a counterfeit.

Etymology [F. contrefait, p. p. of contrefaire to counterfeit; contre (L. contra) + faire to make, fr. L. facere. See Counter, adv., and Fact.]

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

Sanskrit

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