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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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apocalypse

UK /əˈpɒkəlɪps/ · US /əˈpɑkəlɪps/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms apocalypses apocalypsing apocalypsed

  1. noun A revealing, especially a prophecy of, or the unfolding of, supernatural events. “The early development of Perl 6 was punctuated by a series of apocalypses by Larry Wall.”
  2. noun A huge disaster; a cataclysmic event; destruction or ruin of large scope and scale. “A nuclear apocalypse would have been possible if tensions went out of control during the Cuban Missile Crisis.”
  3. noun (Christianity) The unveiling of events prophesied in the Revelation; the second coming and the end of life on Earth; global destruction.
  4. noun (Christianity) The Book of Revelation.
  5. verb (transitive, uncommon, chiefly Christianity) To reveal.
  6. verb (intransitive, informal, rare) To dwell on a huge disaster one expects to take place.
  7. verb (ambitransitive, informal, rare) To bring about (a huge disaster).
  8. proper noun (countable, biblical) The written account of a revelation of hidden things given by God to a chosen prophet. “Apocalypses of Adam and Abraham (Epiphanius) and of Elias (Jerome) are also mentioned.”
  9. proper noun (Christianity) Revelation (last book of the Bible, composed of twenty-two chapters, which narrates a vision of the end times). “He's been reading the Apocalypse again, and doomscrolling social media content that fixates on it.”
  10. proper noun Armageddon: the destructive end of the world. “They keep predicting that the Apocalypse is nigh, but I notice that they have books and supplies that they're trying to sell.”

Synonyms

revelation cataclysm catastrophe holocaust armageddon doomsday end times eschaton judgement day judgment day Ragnarok Revelation of Saint John the Divine Book of Revelation

Etymology

From Middle English apocalips, from Latin apocalypsis, from Ancient Greek ἀποκάλυψις (apokálupsis, “revelation”, literally “uncovering”), from ἀποκαλύπτω (apokalúptō, “to reveal”), from ἀπό (apó, “back, away from”) + καλύπτω (kalúptō, “to cover”), + -σις (-sis, suffix forming nouns). The sense evolution to "catastrophe, end of the world" stems from the depiction of such events in the biblical Book of Revelation, also called the Apocalypse of (i.e. Revelation to) John.
The verb is from the noun and, in sense 1, a semantic loan from the etymonic Ancient Greek verb ἀποκαλύπτω (apokalúptō, “to reveal”).

Proprialization from apocalypse, ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀποκάλυψις (apokálupsis, “revelation”). The translation decisions, from the original Greek to the conventional English choices Revelation and Apocalypse, are covered by Wikipedia at Book of Revelation § Title, authorship, and date.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The revelation delivered to St. John, in the isle of Patmos, near the close of the first century, forming the last book of the New Testament.
  2. noun Anything viewed as a revelation; as disclosure.

Etymology [L. apocalypsis, Gr. apocalypse.]

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