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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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Augustinian

adjective, noun

Forms Augustinians

  1. adjective Of, or relating to St Augustine of Hippo or his doctrines, especially on predestination and grace.
  2. adjective Of, or relating to several religious orders influenced by him.
  3. noun A follower of St Augustine or his doctrines, especially on predestination and grace.
  4. noun A friar or monk of any Augustinian order.
  5. noun (historical, rare) A member of a supposed radical group of the early Reformation, who allegedly believed that humans would not enter Heaven until the Last Judgment.

Etymology

From Middle English Augustinen, from Latin Augustīniānus, from Augustīnus + -iānus, after Augustine of Hippo. By surface analysis, Augustine + -ian.

Learned borrowing from Latin Augustīniānī pl, from Augustīnus + -iānus, after an unidentified person so named. By surface analysis, Augustine + -ian.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A member of one of the religious orders called after St.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo in Northern Africa (b. 354 --d. 430), or to his doctrines. Augustinian canons, an order of monks once popular in England and Ireland; --called also regular canons of St. Austin, and black canons.
  3. noun One of a class of divines, who, following St. Augustine, maintain that grace by its nature is effectual absolutely and creatively, not relatively and conditionally.

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