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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elater

UK /ɪˈleɪ.tə/ · US /əˈleɪ.tɚ/ noun

Forms elaters

  1. noun That which elates.
  2. noun (obsolete) Elasticity; especially the expansibility of a gas.
  3. noun (botany) A long, slender cell produced among spores and having hygroscopic secondary cell wall thickenings.
  4. noun (botany) Any of the long, slender hygroscopic appendages attached to the spores of horsetails (genus Equisetum).
  5. noun (zoology) An elaterid, or click beetle.

Synonyms

elaterid beetle elaterid

Etymology

From elate + -er.

From New Latin elatēr, from Ancient Greek ἐλατήρ (elatḗr, “driver, that which drives away”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, elates.
  2. noun An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts.
  3. noun Any beetle of the family Elateridæ, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of the articulation between the abdomen and thorax; --called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle.
  4. noun The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica Elaterium) and other related species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative.

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