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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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pope

UK /pəʊp/ · US /poʊp/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of pop

Forms popes poping poped

  1. noun (Roman Catholicism and generally) An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
  2. noun (by extension, now often ironic) Any similarly absolute and 'infallible' authority.
  3. noun (by extension) Any similar head of a religion.
  4. noun (uncommon) A theocrat, a priest-king, including (at first especially) over the imaginary land of Prester John or (now) in figurative and alliterative uses.
  5. noun (UK) An effigy of the pope traditionally burnt in Britain on Guy Fawkes' Day and (occasionally) at other times.
  6. noun (US, obsolete) Pope Day, the present Guy Fawkes Day.
  7. noun (Coptic Orthodoxy) An honorary title of the Coptic bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his church.
  8. noun (Eastern Orthodoxy) An honorary title of the Orthodox bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his autocephalous church.
  9. verb (intransitive or with 'it') To act as or like a pope.
  10. verb (intransitive, colloquial) To convert to Roman Catholicism.
  11. noun (alcoholic beverages) Any mulled wine (traditionally including tokay) considered similar and superior to bishop.
  12. noun (US, dialectal, obsolete) The whippoorwill (Antrostomus vociferus, syn. Caprimulgus vociferus).
  13. noun (US, dialectal, rare) The nighthawk (Chordeiles minor).
  14. proper noun An English surname transferred from the nickname originating as a nickname.
  15. proper noun An unincorporated community in Marengo County, Alabama.
  16. proper noun A township in Fayette County, Illinois.
  17. proper noun An unincorporated community in Allen County, Kentucky.
  18. proper noun A village in Panola County, Mississippi.

Synonyms

Guy Fawkes Day their respective entries Orthodox Bishop of Alexandria Bishop of Rome Patriarch of Rome Vicar of Christ Bishop of Alexandria Patriarch of Alexandria Catholic Pope Roman Catholic Pope pontiff Holy Father Alexander Pope

Etymology

From Middle English pope, popa, from Old English pāpa, from Vulgar Latin papa (title for priests and bishops, esp. and by 8th c. only the bishop of Rome), from early Byzantine Greek παπᾶς (papâs, title for priests and bishops, especially by 3rd c. the bishop of Alexandria), from late Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, title for priests and bishops, in the sense of spiritual father), from πάππας (páppas, “papa, daddy”).

By analogy with bishop (“mulled and spiced wine”).

Of Onomatopoeic origin.

From Russian поп (pop), from Old Church Slavonic попъ (popŭ), from Byzantine Greek παπᾶς (papâs) as above.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Any ecclesiastic, esp. a bishop. [Obs.] Foxe.
  2. noun The bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church. See Note under Cardinal.

Etymology [AS. papa, L. papa father, bishop. Cf. Papa, Papal.]

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