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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latinize

UK /ˈlæt.ɪ.naɪz/ · US /ˈlæt.ɪn.aɪz/ verb

Forms latinizes latinizing latinized Latinise

  1. verb To translate something into the Latin language; or make a word similar in appearance or form to a Latin word. “Guglielmus is a Latinized form of William.”
  2. verb To transliterate something into the characters of the Latin script; to Romanize “The Cyrillic letter Л can be Latinized as L.”
  3. verb To render or become Roman Catholic in form or style or to diffuse Roman Catholic ideas in something. “to Latinize the Church of England”

Synonyms

Romanize Romanise Latinise catholicize catholicise

Etymology

From Latin latīnizō. By surface analysis, Latin + -ize.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin.
  2. verb To bring under the power or influence of the Romans or Latins; to affect with the usages of the Latins, especially in speech.
  3. verb To use words or phrases borrowed from the Latin. Dryden.
  4. verb To come under the influence of the Romans, or of the Roman Catholic Church.

Etymology [L. latinizare: cf. F.latiniser.]

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