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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interregnum

UK /ɪntəˈɹɛɡnəm/ · US /ˌɪntəɹˈɹɛɡnəm/ noun

Forms interregnums interregna

  1. noun A period of time between the end of one monarch's reign and the accession of their successor. “The Sasanian Interregnum of 628–632”
  2. noun (figurative) A break in continuity; a gap, an intermission.
  3. noun (Christianity) A period of time between when a minister or pastor leaves a church and when a new one is installed.
  4. noun (politics) A period of time between the end of one political leader's term and the start of the term of their successor; a period of time during which normal executive leadership is interrupted or suspended, and a polity is either left without leadership or has only a temporary one.
  5. noun (obsolete) A temporary exercise of authority or rule during a period of time when there is no monarch or political leader.

Synonyms

hiatus interval moratorium pause recess break breather cessation demurral gap caesura halt halting interruption lapse respite resting stoppage stopping suspension

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin interrēgnum, from inter- (prefix meaning ‘between’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér (“between”)) + rēgnum (“reign; royal power”) (nominalized from the neuter of *rēgnus, from rēx (“king; ruler”, oblique stem rēg-) + -nus (suffix forming adjectives), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to righten; to straighten”)).
The plural form interregna is a learned borrowing from Latin interrēgna.

Proprialization from interregnum.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The time during which a throne is vacant between the death or abdication of a sovereign and the accession of his successor.
  2. noun Any period during which, for any cause, the executive branch of a government is suspended or interrupted.

Etymology [L., fr. inter between + regnum dominion, reign. See Reign, and cf. Interreign.]

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