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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parasitic

UK /ˌpæɹ.əˈsɪt.ɪk/ · US /ˌpɛɹ.əˈsɪt.ɪk/ adjective, noun

Forms parasitics parasitical

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to a biological or symbolic parasite.
  2. adjective Drawing upon another organism for sustenance.
  3. adjective Exploiting another for personal gain.
  4. adjective (philosophy, neutral connotation, with on) Intellectually, logically, conceptually, or metaphysically dependent (on something else in the same category)
  5. adjective (law) Of emotional damages: accompanying a physical or pecuniary injury.
  6. noun (electronics) A component of a circuit that does not show up in a circuit's schematic but does show up in the circuit's behavior.

Synonyms

parasitical epenthetic leechlike bloodsucking

Etymology

L. parasiticus, Gr. parasitique.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of the nature of a parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic. "Parasitic preachers." Milton.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant. See Parasite, 2 & 3. Parasitic gull, Parasitic jager. (Zoöl.) See Jager.

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

Sanskrit

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