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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antecedent

/ˌæntɪˈsiːdənt/ adjective, noun

Forms antecedents

  1. adjective Earlier, either in time or in order. “an antecedent cause”
  2. adjective Presumptive. “an antecedent improbability”
  3. noun Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
  4. noun An ancestor.
  5. noun (grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun or other pro-form.
  6. noun (logic) The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition, i.e. p→q, where p is the antecedent, and q is the consequent.
  7. noun (logic) The first of two subsets of a sequent, consisting of all the sequent's formulae which are valuated as true.
  8. noun (mathematics) The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a in the ratio a:b, the other being the consequent.
  9. noun (chiefly in the plural) Previous principles, conduct, history, etc.

Synonyms

precedent predecessive preceding precursor ascendant ascendent forebear forefather forerunner predecessor progenitor ancestor root

Antonyms

successive consequent succedent anaphor subsequent

Etymology

From Middle English antecedent, borrowed from Old French antecedent, from Latin antecēdēns (“going before”), from antecēdō (“to precede; excel; surpass”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause.
  2. adjective Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability.
  3. noun That which goes before in time; that which precedes. South.
  4. noun One who precedes or goes in front. [Obs.]

Etymology [L. antecedens, -entis, p. pr. of antecedere: cf. F. antécédent.]

Etymology [Cf. F. antécédent.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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