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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pax

/pæks/ noun, interjection, proper noun

  1. noun (Christianity) A painted, stamped or carved tablet with a representation of Christ or the Virgin Mary, which was kissed by the priest during the Mass ("kiss of peace") and then passed to other officiating clergy and the congregation to be kissed. See also osculatory.
  2. noun (UK, dated, school slang) Friendship; truce. “to make pax with someone”
  3. noun (Christianity) The kiss of peace.
  4. noun (Christianity) A crucifix, a tablet with the image of Christ on the cross upon it, or a reliquary.
  5. noun (history) Any of several notable periods of peace in human history, particularly owing to unquestionable hegemony on the model of the Pax Romana.
  6. interjection (UK, dated, school slang) A cry for peace or truce in children's games.
  7. noun A passenger; passengers.
  8. noun (hospitality industry) A guest (at an event or function).
  9. noun (restaurant industry in Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines) Person (a restaurant guest, when counting). “$30 per pax”
  10. proper noun (Roman mythology) The goddess and personification of peace; one of the Horae, she is a daughter of Jupiter and Themis, and her sisters are Justitia (Justice) and Disciplina / Eunomia (Order of Law); her Greek counterpart is Eirene.
  11. proper noun A female given name from Latin.
  12. proper noun A surname from German.

Synonyms

fainites barlafumble kiss of peace

Etymology

From Middle English pax and Latin pax (“peace”). Doublet of peace. See peace. As school slang, originally used at Winchester College, Hampshire, in the United Kingdom.

Abbreviation of passenger; -x is an abbreviation marker as in DX, TX, Dx, Rx, etc.

From Latin Pāx (“Peace”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The kiss of peace; also, the embrace in the sanctuary now substituted for it at High Mass in Roman Catholic churches.
  2. noun A tablet or board, on which is a representation of Christ, of the Virgin Mary, or of some saint and which, in the Mass, was kissed by the priest and then by the people, in mediæval times; an osculatory. It is still used in communities, confraternities, etc. Kiss the pax, and be quiet like your neighbors. Chapman.

Etymology [L. pax peace. See Peace.]

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