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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excommunicate

UK /ˌɛkskəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/ · US /ˌɛkskəˈmjunəkeɪt/ verb, adjective, noun

Forms excommunicates excommunicating excommunicated

  1. verb (transitive) To officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community.
  2. verb (transitive, historical or figurative) To exclude from any other group; to banish.
  3. adjective (archaic) Excommunicated.
  4. noun An excommunicated person.

Synonyms

disfellowship takfir excommunicant excommunicatee unchurch curse

Antonyms

communicate

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin excommunicātus, perfect passive participle of excommunicō (“excommunicate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, ex- + communicate.

From Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin excommunicātus, perfect passive participle of excommunicō (“put out of the community”). See -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more. Displaced native Old English āmǣnsumian.

From a substantivation of the above adjective. See -ate (noun-forming suffix) for more.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.
  2. adjective One excommunicated.
  3. verb To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.
  4. verb To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.

Etymology [L. excommunicatus, p. p. of communicare to excommunicate; ex out + communicare. See Communicate.]

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