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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panacea

UK /ˌpænəˈsiːə/ · US /ˌpæn.əˈsiː.ə/ noun, proper noun

Forms panaceas panaceae panaceæ panacaea panacæa

  1. noun A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all.
  2. noun A solution to all problems. “A monorail will be a panacea for our traffic woes.”
  3. noun (obsolete) The plant allheal (Valeriana officinalis), believed to cure all ills.
  4. proper noun (Greek mythology) The goddess/personification of healing, remedies, cures and panaceas (medicines, salves, ointments and other curatives). She is a daughter of Asclepius and Epione.

Synonyms

heal-all catholicon cure-all elixir wonder drug miracle cure theriac balm of Gilead chicken soup miracle magic bullet silver bullet allheal woundwort nostrum

Etymology

From Latin panacēa, from Ancient Greek πανάκεια (panákeia), from πανακής (panakḗs, “all-healing”), from πᾶν (pân, “all”) (equivalent to English pan-) + ἄκος (ákos, “cure”).

From Ancient Greek Πανακεια (Panakeia, literally “all-curing”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A remedy for all diseases; a universal medicine; a cure-all; catholicon; hence, a relief or solace for affliction.
  2. noun The herb allheal.

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

Sanskrit

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