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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sapient

/ˈseɪ.pi.ənt/ adjective, noun

Forms sapients

  1. adjective (formal, dated except poetic) Possessing discernment and wisdom; learned, wise.
  2. adjective (derogatory, chiefly ironic) Attempting to appear discerning or wise.
  3. adjective (rare) Followed by of: aware or knowledgeable of.
  4. adjective (chiefly science fiction) Of a lifeform or species: possessing intelligence or a high degree of self-awareness.
  5. adjective (anthropology) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Homo sapiens (modern human beings).
  6. adjective (obsolete, rare) Having a (good) flavour or taste; sapid.
  7. noun (archaic except humorous) A wise person; a sage.
  8. noun (by extension, science fiction) An intelligent, self-aware being.
  9. noun (anthropology) A human being of the species Homo sapiens.

Synonyms

astute clairvoyant deep frood grounded judicious oracular perspicacious politic profound prudent quick-witted reasonable sagacious sage sensible wise witful sentient intelligent

Antonyms

insapient nonsapient

Etymology

The adjective is derived from Late Middle English sapient (“learned, wise”), from Old French sapient, or from its etymon Latin sapient-, a stem of sapiēns (“(adjective) discerning, judicious, wise; (noun) wise man, sage”), the present active participle of sapiō (“to have a flavour of, taste like; (figurative) to have good taste; to have discernment or sense; to be prudent, sensible, or wise”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁p-, *sep- (“to taste; to try out”). Doublet of savant.
The noun is derived from the adjective, and also influenced by Latin sapiēns (noun) (see above).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Wise; sage; discerning; --often in irony or contempt.

Etymology [L. sapiens, -entis, p.pr. of sapere to taste to have sense, to know. See Sage, a.]

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