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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Roman

UK /ˈɹəʊ.mən/ · US /ˈɹoʊ.mən/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms Romans

  1. adjective Of or from Rome.
  2. adjective (historical) Of or from the Roman Empire.
  3. adjective (historical, historiography) Of or from the Byzantine Empire.
  4. adjective Of noble countenance but with little facial expression.
  5. adjective (of type or text) Supporting the characters of the Latin alphabet.
  6. adjective (law, colloquial) Used to distinguish a Roman numeral from an Arabic numeral in oral discourse. “You will find the term defined at the end of Roman one.”
  7. adjective (typography) A font that is upright, as opposed to oblique or italic. (See roman font.)
  8. adjective Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church or the Holy See.
  9. noun A native or resident of Rome.
  10. noun (historical) A native or resident of the Roman Empire.
  11. noun (historical, historiography) A native or resident of the Byzantine Empire.
  12. noun (uncountable) The Roman script.
  13. noun (printing, countable) A single letter or character in Roman type.
  14. noun (dated) A Roman Catholic.
  15. proper noun A male given name from Latin recently borrowed from continental Europe.
  16. proper noun A surname.
  17. proper noun A city in Neamț County, Romania.
  18. adjective (of type, typography) Upright, as opposed to italic.
  19. adjective (of text, typography, computing) Of or related to the Latin alphabet or roman numerals.
  20. noun (typography) One of the main three types used for the Latin alphabet (the others being italics and blackletter), in which the ascenders are mostly straight.

Synonyms

Rhomaian Romaean Romaic roman type roman letters roman print Romanic R.C. Romanist romish Roman Catholic popish papist papistic papistical

Antonyms

italic italicised italicized oblique slanted sloped

Etymology

From Old French Romain, from Latin Rōmānus. By surface analysis, Rom(e) + -an. Doublet of Romano. Displaced native Romish.
* In reference to the Byzantine Empire, via the Byzantine Greek endonym Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos).

From Roman.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to Rome, or the Roman people; like or characteristic of Rome, the Roman people, or things done by Romans; as, Roman fortitude; a Roman aqueduct; Roman art.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic religion; professing that religion.
  3. noun A native, or permanent resident, of Rome; a citizen of Rome, or one upon whom certain rights and privileges of a Roman citizen were conferred.
  4. noun Roman type, letters, or print, collectively; --in distinction from Italics.

Etymology [L. Romanus, fr. Roma Rome: cf. F. romain. Cf. Romaic, Romance, Romantic.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “roman” (best matches first).