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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italic

/ɪˈtælɪk/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms italics italick

  1. adjective (typography, of a typeface or font) Designed to resemble a handwriting style developed in Italy in the 16th century.
  2. adjective (typography, of a typeface or font) Having letters that slant or lean to the right; oblique. “The text was impossible to read: every other word was underlined or in a bold or italic font.”
  3. noun (typography) A typeface in which the letters slant to the right.
  4. noun An oblique handwriting style, such as used by Italian calligraphers of the Renaissance.
  5. adjective Of or relating to the Italian peninsula.
  6. adjective (Indo-European studies) Pertaining to a subfamily of the Centum branch of the Indo-European language family, that includes Latin and other languages (as Oscan, Umbrian) spoken by the peoples of ancient Italy
  7. adjective (dated) Osco-Umbrian; an extinct branch of such language family, which excludes the Latino-Faliscan languages “The ancient Italic languages that are now extinct include Oscan, Umbrian, and South Picene.”
  8. adjective (historical) Pertaining to various peoples that lived in Italy before the establishment of the Roman Empire, or to any of several alphabet systems used by those peoples. “There were several Italic alphabets, one being the Etruscan alphabet.”
  9. proper noun The Italic family taken as a whole. “The centum families include Celtic, Germanic, Greek, and Italic.”

Synonyms

cursive oblique Osco-Umbrian Sabellic Sabellian Italic language

Antonyms

upright

Etymology

Named after the nation of Italy, as it was first used by an Italian printer, Aldo Manuzio, around 1500. Literally Italy + -ic.

Via Latin ītalicus from Ancient Greek Ἰταλικός (Italikós), from Ἰταλία (Italía, “Italy”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Relating to Italy or to its people.
  2. adjective Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; --so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500. Italic languages, the group or family of languages of ancient Italy.
  3. noun An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic, a., 2.); --often in the plural; as, the Italics are the author's. Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic letters.

Etymology [L. Italicus: cf. F. italique. Cf. Italian.]

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