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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palatine

UK /ˈpæl.ə.taɪn/ · US /ˈpæl.əˌtaɪn/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms palatines

  1. adjective (historical) (of an official or feudal lord) Having local authority and possessing royal privileges that elsewhere belongs only to a sovereign.
  2. adjective Subject to palatine authority. (of a territory)
  3. adjective Of or relating to a palace especially of a Roman or Holy Roman Emperor.
  4. adjective Synonym of palatial.
  5. noun A palace official, especially in an imperial palace.
  6. noun (in the plural, historical) The Roman soldiers of the imperial palace.
  7. noun (historical) A fur cape or stole worn by women, which covers the neck and shoulders.
  8. adjective (anatomy) Of or relating to the palate or to a palatine bone.
  9. proper noun One of the seven hills of Rome; the site of the earliest settlement.
  10. proper noun A village in Cook County, Illinois.
  11. proper noun A hamlet in County Carlow, Ireland.
  12. proper noun A town in Montgomery County, New York.
  13. proper noun The Rhine Franconian dialect spoken in the Palatinate.
  14. adjective Pertaining to the Elector Palatine or the German Palatinate or its people.
  15. noun (rare, obsolete) A native or inhabitant of the Palatinate.

Synonyms

palatial chief minister palatinate praetorians palsgrave palatine bone os palatinum palatal

Etymology

From late Middle English palatyne, from Old French palatin, from Medieval Latin palātīnus (“relating to the palace”), from palātium (“palace”) + -īnus (“-ine”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of paladin.

Borrowed from French palatine, named after German Princess Palatine Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine (1652–1722).

Borrowing from French palatin, from New Latin palātīnus, from palātum (“the palate”) + -īnus (“-ine”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to palate + -ine.

From Latin Palātīnus, from Palātium.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal privileges. Count palatine, County palatine.
  2. noun One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count.
  3. noun The Palatine hill in Rome.
  4. adjective Of or pertaining to the palate. Palatine bones (Anat.), a pair of bones (often united in the adult) in the root of the mouth, back of and between the maxillaries.

Etymology [F. palatin, L. palatinus, fr. palatium. See Palace, and cf. Paladin.]

Etymology [From Palate.]

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