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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

fiscal

/ˈfɪskəl/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms fiscals

  1. adjective Related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue. “fiscal matters”
  2. adjective (proscribed) Pertaining to finance and money in general; financial.
  3. adjective Being a fiscal year.
  4. noun A public official in certain countries having control of public revenue.
  5. noun (Scots law) Procurator fiscal, a public prosecutor.
  6. noun (law) In certain countries, including Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and former colonies of these countries and certain British colonies, solicitor or attorney general.
  7. noun (Philippines, law) A public prosecutor (UK) or a district attorney (US).
  8. noun Any of various African shrikes of the genus Lanius.
  9. proper noun A surname from Spanish.

Synonyms

financial

Etymology

From Middle French fiscal, from Latin fiscus (“treasury”) – see fiscus and fisc.

From Spanish fiscal, ultimately from Latin fiscus (“treasury”).

After Afrikaans fiskaal (“public official, hangman”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Pertaining to the public treasury or revenue.
  2. noun The income of a prince or a state; revenue; exchequer. [Obs.]
  3. noun A treasurer. H. Swinburne.

Etymology [F. fiscal, L. fiscalis, fr. fiscus. See Fisc.]

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

Sanskrit

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