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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parterre

UK /pɑːˈtɛə/ · US /pɑːɹˈtɛɚ/ noun

Forms parterres

  1. noun (horticulture) A flowerbed, particularly an elevated one.
  2. noun (horticulture) A garden with paths between such flowerbeds.
  3. noun (theater) A part of the section of theater seats located on the ground floor, on the same level as the orchestra.
  4. noun The part of the ground-floor section nearest the orchestra and the stage; the stalls.
  5. noun (UK) The part of the ground-floor section behind the stalls and underneath the galleries; the pit.
  6. noun (theater, by extension) That part of a theater audience seated in the parterre, sometimes regarded as belonging to a lower social class.
  7. noun (US, New York) An apartment balcony.

Synonyms

parquet circle

Etymology

Borrowed from French parterre (“on the ground”), from par (“on”) + terre (“ground”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on.
  2. noun The pit of a theater; the parquet. [France]

Etymology [F., fr. par on, by (L. per)+terre earth, ground, L. terra. See Terrace.]

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

Sanskrit

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