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

ordinal

UK /ˈɔː.dɪ.nəl/ · US /ˈɔɹ.dɪ.nəl/ adjective, noun

Forms ordinals

  1. adjective (mathematics, of a number) Indicating position in a sequence. “"Three" is a cardinal number, while "third" is the corresponding ordinal number.”
  2. adjective (taxonomy) Pertaining to a taxon at the rank of order.
  3. adjective (nautical) Intercardinal.
  4. noun An ordinal number such as first, second and third.
  5. noun A book used in the ordination of Anglican ministers, or in certain Roman Catholic services
  6. noun (cryptocurrencies) A unique serial number assigned to a satoshi based on its position in the blockchain.

Synonyms

ordinal number no.

Antonyms

cardinal

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ōrdinālis, adjective formed from noun ōrdō (“order”), + adjective suffix -ālis.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Indicating order or succession; as, the ordinal numbers, first, second, third, etc.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to an order.
  3. noun A word or number denoting order or succession.
  4. noun The book of forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons.

Etymology [L. ordinalis, fr. ordo, ordinis, order. See Order.]

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

Sanskrit

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