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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paternoster

UK /ˈpɑːtəˌnɒstə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈpɑtəɹˌnɔstɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms paternosters paternostering paternostered

  1. noun (Christianity) The Lord's Prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.
  2. noun A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building.
  3. noun (architecture, millwork) A bead-like ornament in mouldings.
  4. noun (fishing) A tackle rig with a heavy sinker at the end of the line, and one or more hooks on traces at right angles spaced above the sinker.
  5. noun (Christianity, archaic) A string of beads used in counting prayers that are said.
  6. noun (Christianity, archaic) Every eleventh bead in a rosary, at which, while counting the beads, the Lord's Prayer is to be repeated.
  7. noun (Christianity, archaic) A medieval artisan who crafted rosary beads or prayer nuts.
  8. noun (archaic) A patent medicine, so named because salesmen would pray the Lord's Prayer over it before selling it.
  9. verb (fishing, transitive) To try to catch (fish, etc.) with a paternoster rig.
  10. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

nostrum nostrum remedium

Etymology

From Middle English paternoster, pater noster, from Old English Paternoster, from Latin Pater noster (“our father”) (the first two words of the Oratio Dominica (“the Lord's prayer”)), from pater (“father”) + noster (“our”). The lift and the fishing equipment are named from their resemblance to a rosary.

From Latin pater (“father”) + noster (“ours”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version.
  2. noun A beadlike ornament in moldings.

Etymology [L., Our Father.]

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