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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latitudinarian

UK /ˌlatɪtjuːdɪˈnɛːɹɪən/ · US /lædɪtuːdəˈnɛɹi.ən/ adjective, noun

Forms latitudinarians

  1. adjective Not restrained; not confined by precise limits.
  2. adjective Tolerant, especially of other people's religious views.
  3. adjective Lax in moral or religious principles.
  4. noun A person who is tolerant of others' religious views.

Synonyms

forbearing open-minded avuncular broad-minded catholic indulgent laissez faire lenient liberal open-handed permissible permissive sufferable tolerant free-thinking undogmatic undogmatical

Etymology

From Latin lātitūdin- + -arian, from oblique stem of Latin lātitūdō, from lātus + -tūdō. By surface analysis, latitude + -arian.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not restrained; not confined by precise limits.
  2. adjective Indifferent to a strict application of any standard of belief or opinion; hence, deviating more or less widely from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian divines; latitudinarian theology.
  3. noun One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges freedom in thinking.
  4. noun A member of the Church of England, in the time of Charles II., who adopted more liberal notions in respect to the authority, government, and doctrines of the church than generally prevailed.

Etymology [Cf. F. latitudinaire.]

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