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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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septic

/ˈsɛp.tɪk/ adjective, noun

Forms septics septick

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to sepsis.
  2. adjective Causing sepsis or putrefaction.
  3. adjective Of or pertaining to sewage or the disposal of sewage. “septic tank”
  4. noun A substance that causes sepsis or putrefaction.
  5. noun (medicine, dated) A person who has sepsis.
  6. noun A septic tank; a system for the disposal of sewage into a septic tank, a septic system.
  7. noun (mathematics) A mathematical object (function, curve, surface, etc.) of degree seven.
  8. adjective (mathematics) Of the seventh degree or order.
  9. noun (UK, Australia, New Zealand, rhyming slang, ethnic slur) An American, a Yank.

Synonyms

infected

Antonyms

antiseptic

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σηπτικός (sēptikós, “characterized by putridity”), from σηπτός (sēptós), from σήπω (sḗpō).

From Latin septem (“seven”) + -ic.

Short form of Cockney rhyming slang septic tank (“Yank”).

Short form of Australian rhyming slang septic tank (“Yank”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of the seventh degree or order.
  2. adjective A quantic of the seventh degree.
  3. adjective Having power to promote putrefaction.
  4. noun A substance that promotes putrefaction.

Etymology [Septi- + -ic.]

Etymology [L. septicus, Gr. septique.]

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