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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septum

/ˈsɛp.təm/ noun

Forms septa septums saeptum sæptum

  1. noun (anatomy) Either of the two walls that separate the atria or ventricles of the heart into left and right chambers.
  2. noun (botany) A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.
  3. noun (mycology) A partition that separates the cells of a (septated) fungus.
  4. noun (zoology) One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral.
  5. noun (zoology) One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers.
  6. noun (zoology) One of the transverse partitions dividing the body cavity of an annelid.
  7. noun (nuclear medicine) One of the walls dividing two holes in a parallel-hole collimator

Synonyms

dissepiment

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sēptum (“enclosure, wall, fence”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum.
  2. noun A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.

Etymology [L. septum, saeptum, an inclosure, hedge, fence, fr. sepire, saepire, to hedge in, inclose.]

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

Sanskrit

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