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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epidemic

/ˌɛpɪˈdɛmɪk/ noun, adjective

Forms epidemics epidemick epidemical

  1. noun A widespread disease that affects many humans in a population.
  2. noun (epidemiology) An occurrence of a disease or disorder in a human population at a frequency higher than that expected in a given time period; an episode of outbreak and subsequent high prevalence.
  3. noun (by extension, colloquial) A heightened occurrence of anything harmful.
  4. noun (figurative) The spreading of an idea or belief amongst a population.
  5. adjective Of, related to, or being an epidemic: a widespread outbreak of disease in humans.
  6. adjective (figurative) Like an epidemic: widespread in a bad way. “Epidemic hysteria occurred upon the incumbent’s reelection.”

Synonyms

common ubiquitous disseminated far-flung extensive pervasive predominant prevailing prevalent regnant rife spread out systemic universal widespread

Antonyms

endemic ecdemic

Etymology

From French épidémique, from épidémie, from Medieval Latin epidēmia, reanalysis of plural Late Latin epidēmia, from Ancient Greek ἐπιδήμιος (epidḗmios), from ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + δῆμος (dêmos, “people”). By surface analysis, epi- (“on”) + demic (“of the people”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; --applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic.
  2. adjective Spreading widely, or generally prevailing; affecting great numbers, as an epidemic does; as, epidemic rage; an epidemic evil.
  3. noun An epidemic disease.
  4. noun Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror.

Etymology [L. epidemus, Gr. épidémique. Cf. Demagogue.]

Etymology [Cf. Epidemy.]

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

Sanskrit

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