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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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hector

UK /ˈhɛktə/ · US /ˈhɛktɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms hectors hectoring hectored hectour

  1. noun Sometimes in the form Hector: a blustering, noisy, turbulent fellow; a braggart, bully.
  2. verb (transitive) To dominate or intimidate in a blustering way; to bully, to domineer.
  3. verb (intransitive) To behave like a hector or bully; to bluster, to swagger; to bully.
  4. proper noun (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A Trojan hero in Homer's Iliad.
  5. proper noun A male given name from Ancient Greek.
  6. proper noun A town in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia.
  7. proper noun A settlement in the West Coast region, New Zealand.
  8. proper noun A town in Pope County, Arkansas.
  9. proper noun A locality in Clay County, Kentucky.
  10. proper noun A city in Renville County, Minnesota.
  11. proper noun A town in Schuyler County, New York, named after Hector Ely.

Synonyms

terrorise terrorize huff huff and puff strong-arm bully browbeat bullyrag ballyrag boss around push around

Etymology

From Hector (“in Greek and Roman mythology, a character in Homer’s Iliad who is the greatest warrior of Troy”), from Late Middle English Hector (“warrior with the qualities of Hector”), from Latin Hectōr or Ancient Greek Ἕκτωρ (Héktōr), from ἕκτωρ (héktōr, “holding fast”), from ἔχειν (ékhein), present active infinitive of ἔχω (ékhō, “to have, own, possess; to hold”), from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to hold; to overpower”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

From Latin Hectōr or Ancient Greek Ἕκτωρ (Héktōr), from ἕκτωρ (héktōr, “holding fast”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “to have, hold”), from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to hold; to overpower”).
Sometimes used as an anglicization of various Scottish Gaelic names, including Eachann and Eochaid.
The thundercloud cluster was named by pilots during the Second World War.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes.
  2. verb To treat with insolence; to threaten; to bully; hence, to torment by words; to tease; to taunt; to worry or irritate by bullying. Dryden.
  3. verb To play the bully; to bluster; to be turbulent or insolent.

Etymology [From the Trojan warrior Hector, the son of Priam.]

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