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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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Galilean

adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms Galileans Galilaean Galilæan

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to Galilee, or a native or inhabitant thereof.
  2. noun A native or resident of Galilee.
  3. noun (historical) A zealous follower of Judas of Galilee, who fiercely resented the taxation of the Romans, and whose violence contributed to induce the latter to vow the extermination of the whole race.
  4. noun (by extension, sometimes derogatory) A Christian.
  5. proper noun Jesus Christ.
  6. adjective (philosophy) Of or pertaining to the Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Galileo Galilei.

Synonyms

Galilaean Galilean satellite

Etymology

Originated 1605–15 from Latin Galilaeus [from Ancient Greek Γαλιλαῖος (Galilaîos)] + -an.

Originated 1720–30, from Galileo + -an.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to Galileo; as, the Galilean telescope. See Telescope.
  2. adjective Of or relating to Galilee.
  3. noun A native or inhabitant of Galilee, the northern province of Palestine under the Romans.
  4. noun One of the party among the Jews, who opposed the payment of tribute to the Romans; --called also Gaulonite.

Etymology [L. Galilaeus, fr. Galilaea Galilee, Gr. galiléen.]

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