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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

oratory

UK /ˈɒɹət(ə)ɹi/ · US /ˈɔ.ɹəˌtɔ.ɹi/ noun, proper noun

Forms oratories the Oratory

  1. noun A private chapel or prayer room.
  2. noun A Roman Catholic chapel; a building for public or private worship that is not a parish church.
  3. noun (specifically) A Catholic church belonging to the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri.
  4. noun The art of public speaking, especially in a formal, expressive, or forceful manner.
  5. noun Eloquence; the quality of artistry and persuasiveness in speech or writing.
  6. proper noun (Roman Catholicism) The Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, a society of priests and lay brothers founded in 1575.

Synonyms

public speaking

Etymology

From Middle English oratorie, from Anglo-Norman oratorie, Middle French oratoire, and their source, Late Latin ōrātōrium. Doublet of oratorio. Displaced native Old English bēdhūs.

Borrowed from Latin ōrātōria, from the feminine of ōrātōrius (“oratorial”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions.
  2. noun The art of an orator; the art of public speaking in an eloquent or effective manner; the exercise of rhetorical skill in oral discourse; eloquence. "The oratory of Greece and Rome." Milton.

Etymology [OE. oratorie, fr. L. oratorium, fr. oratorius of praying, of an orator: cf. F. oratoire. See Orator, Oral, and cf. Oratorio.]

Etymology [L. oratoria (sc. ars) the oratorical art.]

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

Sanskrit

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