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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orthodoxy

UK /ˈɔːθədɒksi/ · US /ˈɔɹθədɑksi/ noun, proper noun

Forms orthodoxies

  1. noun Correctness of doctrine and belief in regard to any doctrinal (i.e. philosophical or theological) system.
  2. noun Conformity to established and accepted beliefs (usually of religions).
  3. proper noun The Eastern Orthodox Church.
  4. proper noun The aggregate of the definitive elements of the Eastern Orthodox Church, such as its faith, worship, theology, and traditions.
  5. proper noun The beliefs and practices of Orthodox Judaism.

Synonyms

homodoxy

Antonyms

heterodoxy cacodoxy unorthodoxy

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὀρθοδοξία (orthodoxía), from ὀρθός (orthós, “correct”) + δόξα (dóxa, “way, opinion”). By surface analysis, orthodox + -y.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Soundness of faith; a belief in the doctrines taught in the Scriptures, or in some established standard of faith; --opposed to heterodoxy or to heresy.
  2. noun Consonance to genuine Scriptural doctrines; --said of moral doctrines and beliefs; as, the orthodoxy of a creed.

Etymology [Gr. orthodoxie. See Orthodox.]

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