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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latitude

UK /ˈlætɪtjuːd/ · US /ˈlætɪtud/ noun

Forms latitudes

  1. noun (geography, astronomy, countable) The angular distance north or south from a planet's equator, measured along the meridian of that particular point.
  2. noun (geography) An imaginary line (in the form of a circumference) around a planet running parallel to the planet's equator. “snow showers in the northerly latitudes”
  3. noun (figurative) The relative freedom from restrictions; scope to do something. “His parents gave him a great deal of latitude.”
  4. noun (astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.
  5. noun (photography) The extent to which a light-sensitive material can be over- or underexposed and still achieve an acceptable result.
  6. noun Extent or scope; e.g. breadth, width or amplitude.

Synonyms

parallel leeway line of latitude parallel of latitude

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French latitude, from Latin lātitūdō (“breadth, width, latitude”), from lātus (“broad, wide”), from older stlātus. Possibly related with lateral, though this is uncertain.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Extent from side to side, or distance sidewise from a given point or line; breadth; width.
  2. noun Room; space; freedom from confinement or restraint; hence, looseness; laxity; independence.

Etymology [F. latitude, L. latitudo, fr. latus broad, wide, for older stlatus; perh. akin to E. strew.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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