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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serene

UK /səˈɹiːn/ · US /səˈɹin/ adjective, verb, noun, proper noun

Forms serener serenest serenes serening serened serein serena

  1. adjective Calm, peaceful, unruffled. “She looked at her students with joviality and a serene mentality.”
  2. adjective Without worry or anxiety; unaffected by disturbance.
  3. adjective (archaic) Fair and unclouded (as of the sky); clear; unobscured.
  4. adjective Used as part of certain titles, originally to indicate sovereignty or independence. “Her Serene Highness”
  5. verb (transitive) To make serene.
  6. noun (poetic) Serenity; clearness; calmness.
  7. noun A fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset.
  8. proper noun A female given name from English. A rare variant of Serena.

Synonyms

cool-headed placid calm steady collected composed equable equanimous equanimitable even-keeled even-minded even-tempered imperturbable laid-back level-headed mellow pacate pacific peaceable peaceful unagitated tranquil

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Latin serēnus (“clear, cloudless, untroubled”).

Borrowed from Middle French serein, from Old French serein (“evening”), from Vulgar Latin *serānum, from substantive use of sērum, neuter of sērus (“late”) + -ānus suffix.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Bright; clear; unabscured; as, a serene sky. The moon serene in glory mounts the sky. Pope.
  2. adjective Calm; placid; undisturbed; unruffled; as, a serene aspect; a serene soul. Milton.
  3. noun Serenity; clearness; calmness. [Poetic.] "The serene of heaven." Southey.
  4. noun Evening air; night chill. [Obs.] "Some serene blast me." B. Jonson.

Etymology [F. serein evening dew or damp. See Serein.]

Etymology [L. serenare.]

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

Sanskrit

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