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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platonic

UK /pləˈtɒnɪk/ · US /pləˈtɔnɪk/ adjective, noun

Forms Platonics Platonick

  1. adjective Neither sexual nor romantic in nature; being or exhibiting platonic love. “They are good friends, but their relationship is strictly platonic.”
  2. adjective Of or relating to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato or his philosophies.
  3. noun A Platonist; a follower of Plato's ideas.
  4. noun A Platonic solid.

Antonyms

romantic sexual

Etymology

Variant of Platonic, which see. The sense “non-sexual” dates to the 17th century in English, and to the 15th century in Latin; see platonic love for details.

From Latin Platōnicus. By surface analysis, Platon (“Plato”) + -ic (“relating to”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to Plato, or his philosophy, school, or opinions.
  2. adjective Pure, passionless; nonsexual; philosophical. Platonic bodies, the five regular geometrical solids; namely, the tetrahedron, hexahedron or cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron.
  3. noun A follower of Plato; a Platonist.

Etymology [L. Platonicus, Gr. platonique.]

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