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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feminine

/ˈfɛmɪnɪn/ adjective, noun

Forms feminines f. f fœminine femenine

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to the female gender.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.
  3. adjective Belonging to females; typically used by females. “Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.”
  4. adjective Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive, sensual; womanly.
  5. adjective (of a noun) Being of the feminine class or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.
  6. adjective (of another part of speech) Being inflected in agreement with a feminine noun.
  7. adjective (grammar, Mongolic languages, of any word) Having the vowel harmony of a front vowel.
  8. adjective (prosody) Following or ending on an unstressed syllable. “Feminine caesura, feminine catalexis, feminine ending, feminine rhyme.”
  9. noun That which is feminine.
  10. noun (rare, possibly obsolete) A woman.
  11. noun (grammar) The feminine gender.
  12. noun (grammar) A word of the feminine gender.

Synonyms

female womanly caring ladylike nurturing beauty femme fem girlish girly ladyish maidenly matronly womanish Of a man camp effeminate epicene fruity soft

Antonyms

masculine manly male butch neuter androgynous

Etymology

From Middle English feminine, femynyne, femynyn, from Old French feminin, feminine, from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-eh₂ (“(the one) nursing, breastfeeding”). Related to fetus, feminism, filial, fellatio.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.
  2. adjective Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate.
  3. noun A woman. [Obs. or Colloq.]
  4. noun Any one of those words which are the appellations of females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words; as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix.

Etymology [L. femininus, fr. femina woman; prob. akin to L. fetus, or to Gr. fæmme woman, maid: cf. F. féminin. See Fetus.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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