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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intercessor

/ˈɪntə(ɹ)ˌsɛsə(ɹ)/ noun

Forms intercessors intercessour

  1. noun A mediator, one who reconciles enemies or pleads for another.
  2. noun An intermediary, a middleman.
  3. noun (Roman Catholicism, Greek Orthodoxy) A saint believed to plead for a sinner to God. “St Mary the Intercessor”
  4. noun (Roman Catholicism) A bishop who acts during a vacancy in a see.

Synonyms

agent delegate deputy emissary lieutenant proxy representative secondary solicitor surrogate intermediary middleman go-between mediator intermediator

Etymology

Late 15th century, from Latin intercessor, from Latin intercēdō, from inter (“between”) + cēdō (“to go”) (English cede), literally “go-between”.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who goes between, or intercedes; a mediator. (a) One who interposes between parties at variance, with a view to reconcile them. (b) One who pleads in behalf of another. Milton.
  2. noun A bishop, who, during a vacancy of the see, administers the bishopric till a successor is installed.

Etymology [L., a surety: cf. F. intercesseur.]

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

Sanskrit

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