Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

larghetto

adjective, noun

Forms larghettos

adjective (music) Slower than adagio but not as slow as largo; nearly andantino. “Play larghetto here, even though it’s marked largo.”
noun The larghetto tempo. “Which tempo do you want, largo or larghetto?”
noun A composition or movement to be played larghetto. “The larghetto from this suite is one of the composer’s most evocative works.”

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian larghetto, diminutive of largo.

adjective Somewhat slow or slowly, but not so slowly as largo, and rather more so than andante.

Etymology [It., dim. of largo largo.]

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