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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secretary

UK /ˈsɛk.ɹə.tə.ɹi/ · US /ˈsɛk.(ɹ)əˌtɛɹ.i/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms secretaries secretarying secretaried secretarie

  1. noun A person who keeps records, takes notes and handles general clerical work. “I have a personal secretary to help me organize my clients.”
  2. noun (often capitalized) The head of a department of government.
  3. noun A managerial or leading position in certain non-profit organizations, such as political parties, trade unions, international organizations. “Ban Ki-Moon was a secretary general of the United Nations.”
  4. noun (US) A type of desk, secretary desk; a secretaire.
  5. noun A secretary bird, a bird of the species Sagittarius serpentarius.
  6. noun (original sense, now obsolete) Someone entrusted with a secret; a confidant.
  7. noun (obsolete) Someone employed as a scribe for personal correspondence.
  8. verb (transitive) To serve as a secretary of.
  9. proper noun A town in Maryland.

Synonyms

administrator assistant administrative assistant amanuensis clerk scribe scrivener seneschal secretarial assistant repository writing table escritoire secretaire

Etymology

From Medieval Latin secrētārius (“one entrusted with secrets”), from Latin secrētus (“private, secret”), past participle of secernere (“to separate, set apart”), from se- (“apart”) + cernere (“to separate”).

Named by Lord Baltimore after his secretary.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. [R.]
  2. noun A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public or private papers, records, and the like; an official scribe, amanuensis, or writer; one who attends to correspondence, and transacts other business, for an association, a public body, or an individual.

Etymology [F. secrétaire (cf. Pr. secretari, Sp. & Pg. secretario, It. secretario, segretario) LL. secretarius, originally, a confidant, one intrusted with secrets, from L. secretum a secret. See Secret, a. & n.]

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

Sanskrit

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