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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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atrium

/ˈeɪ.tɹi.əm/ noun

Forms atria atriums

  1. noun (architecture) A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings.
  2. noun (architecture) A square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.
  3. noun (anatomy) A cavity, entrance, or passage.
  4. noun (biology) Any enclosed body cavity or chamber.
  5. noun (anatomy) An upper chamber of the heart that receives blood from the veins and forces it into a ventricle. In higher vertebrates, the right atrium receives blood from the superior vena cava and inferior vena cava, and the left atrium receives blood from the left and right pulmonary veins.
  6. noun (anatomy) A microscopic air sac within a pulmonary alveolus.
  7. noun (palynology) A cavity inside a porate aperture of a pollen grain formed by the separation of the sexine and nexine layers, widening toward the interior of the grain.

Synonyms

cavaedium

Etymology

From Latin ātrium (“entry hall”), from Etruscan.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun (a) A square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.
  2. noun The main part of either auricle of the heart as distinct from the auricular appendix. Also, the whole articular portion of the heart.

Etymology [L., the fore court of a Roman house.]

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