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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

acceptation

/ˌæk.sɛpˈteɪ.ʃən/ noun

Forms acceptations

  1. noun The meaning (sense) in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received. “The term is to be used according to its usual acceptation.”
  2. noun (now rare) Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; the state of being acceptable.
  3. noun (theology) The active divine decision to approve an act or circumstance, held by Scotists to be necessary to render it meritorious.

Synonyms

word meaning word sense adoption acceptance espousal

Etymology

From Middle English acceptacioun, acceptation, from Middle French acceptacion and Late Latin acceptātiō. By surface analysis, accept + -ation.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable. [Obs.]
  2. noun The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation.

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

Sanskrit

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