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

indivisible

/ˌɪndɪˈvɪzɪbəl/ adjective, noun

Forms indivisibles

  1. adjective Incapable of being divided; atomic.
  2. adjective (arithmetic) Incapable of being divided by a specific integer without leaving a remainder.
  3. noun That which cannot be divided or split.
  4. noun (geometry) An infinitely small quantity which is assumed to admit of no further division.

Synonyms

unsplittable

Antonyms

divisible incombinable uncombinable unmergeable ununifiable

Etymology

From Middle French indivisible, from Late Latin indivisibilis. Equivalent to in- + divisible.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not divisible; incapable of being divided, separated, or broken; not separable into parts. "One indivisible point of time." Dryden.
  2. adjective Not capable of exact division, as one quantity by another; incommensurable.
  3. noun That which is indivisible.
  4. noun An infinitely small quantity which is assumed to admit of no further division. Method of indivisibles, a kind of calculus, formerly in use, in which lines were considered as made up of an infinite number of points; surfaces, as made up of an infinite number of lines; and volumes, as made up of an infinite number of surfaces.

Etymology [L. indivisibilis: cf. F. indivisible. See In- not, and Divisible.]

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

Sanskrit

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