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

pallium

/ˈpæ.li.əm/ noun

Forms pallia palliums

  1. noun (historical) A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers.
  2. noun (Christianity) A woolen liturgical vestment resembling a collar and worn over the chasuble in the Western Christian liturgical tradition, conferred on archbishops by the Pope, equivalent to the Eastern Christian omophorion.
  3. noun (malacology) The mantle of a mollusc.
  4. noun (anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
  5. noun (botany) A presumed gelatinous envelope of diatoms.
  6. noun (obsolete, meteorology) A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus.
  7. noun (entomology) The membrane which stretches across the inner walls of the subgenital plate and covers the aedeagus of a grasshopper.

Synonyms

cerebral cortex cerebral mantle cortex mantle

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pallium (“a cloak”). Doublet of pall.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A large, square, woolen cloak which enveloped the whole person, worn by the Greeks and by certain Romans. It is the Roman name of a Greek garment.
  2. noun A band of white wool, worn on the shoulders, with four purple crosses worked on it; a pall.

Etymology [L. See Pall the garment.]

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