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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epitome

UK /əˈpɪt.ə.mi/ · US /ɪˈpɪt.ə.mi/ noun

Forms epitomes epitomai

  1. noun The embodiment or encapsulation of a class of items.
  2. noun A representative example.
  3. noun The height; the best; the most vivid.
  4. noun A brief summary of a text.

Synonyms

exemplar model type archetype byspel case beau ideal case in point embodiment eponym exemplification example exemplificator Exhibit A illustration incarnation instance paradigm prototype quintessence image

Antonyms

antithesis

Etymology

From Middle French, from Latin epitomē, from Ancient Greek ἐπιτομή (epitomḗ, “an abridgment, also a surface-incision”), from ἐπιτέμνω (epitémnō, “to cut upon the surface, cut short, abridge”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “up”) + τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement.
  2. noun A compact or condensed representation of anything.

Etymology [L., fr. Gr. épitome. See Tome.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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