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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matriculate

UK /məˈtɹɪkjʊˌleɪt/ · US /məˈtɹɪkjəˌleɪt/ verb, adjective, noun

Forms matriculates matriculating matriculated

  1. verb (transitive) To enroll as a member of a body, especially of a college or university.
  2. verb (transitive, by extension, often with to) To join or enter (a group, body, category of people, etc.).
  3. verb (intransitive, stative) To be enrolled as a member of a body, especially of a college or university.
  4. verb (proscribed) To graduate (from a school or course of study).
  5. adjective (obsolete, later chiefly Scotland, participial adjective) Matriculated.
  6. noun A person admitted to membership in a society or college.

Synonyms

matriculant

Etymology

The adjective is first attested in 1487, in Middle English, the verb in 1557; borrowed from Latin mātrīculātus, perfect passive participle of mātrīculō (“to register”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from mātrīcula (“public register”), a diminutive of Latin mātrīx (“list”). By surface analysis, matricul(a) + -ate.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To enroll; to enter in a register; specifically, to enter or admit to membership in a body or society, particularly in a college or university, by enrolling the name in a register.
  2. verb To go though the process of admission to membership, as by examination and enrollment, in a society or college.
  3. adjective Matriculated. Skelton.
  4. adjective One who is matriculated. Arbuthnot.

Etymology [L. matricula a public roll or register, dim. of matrix a mother, in respect to propagation, also, a public register. See Matrix.]

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