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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latent

/ˈleɪ.tənt/ adjective, noun

Forms latents

  1. adjective Existing or present, but concealed or inactive.
  2. adjective (pathology, virology, of a virus) Remaining in an inactive or hidden phase; dormant.
  3. adjective (biology) Lying dormant or hidden until circumstances are suitable for development or manifestation.
  4. adjective (dated) Latently homosexual.
  5. noun (forensics) The residue left by a person's finger that can be made visible by a process such as powder dusting; a latent fingerprint.
  6. noun (statistics) An underlying cause that can be inferred from statistical correlations; factor.
  7. noun Anything that is latent.

Synonyms

hidden invisible dormant abeyant at rest cessant dull fallow hibernating idle inactive inert languid nonactive passive quiescent silent sedent sedentary slow

Antonyms

apparent patent visible active

Etymology

From Middle English latent, latente, from Old French latent, from Latin latēns, present participle of lateō (“lie hidden”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not visible or apparent; hidden; springs of action.

Etymology [L. latens, -entis, p. pr. of latere to lie hid or concealed; cf. Gr. lethargy: cf. F.latent.]

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

Sanskrit

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