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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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spaghetti

/spəˈɡɛti/ noun, verb

Forms spaghettis spaghettiing spaghettied

  1. noun (countable, uncountable) A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings. “Her mother was cooking spaghetti for dinner.”
  2. noun (by extension, countable, uncountable) A dish that has spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) as a main part of it, such as spaghetti bolognese.
  3. noun (derogatory, informal) An Italian person.
  4. noun (by extension, uncountable, informal, often attributively) Something physically resembling spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled. “spaghetti grid    spaghetti junction    spaghetti limbs    spaghetti strap    spaghetti stripes”
  5. noun (electrical engineering) Electrical insulating tubing or electrical wiring.
  6. noun (road transport) Roads forming a complex junction, especially one with multiple levels on a motorway.
  7. noun (3D printing) Disorderly strands of filament, caused by an error during the printing process.
  8. noun (uncountable, figuratively, informal) Something confusing or intricate.
  9. verb (humorous) To serve (someone) spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).
  10. verb To cause (someone or something) to become, or appear to become, longer and thinner; to stretch. “He spaghettied the referee when he landed on him.”
  11. verb To cause (something) to become tangled.
  12. verb (humorous) To eat spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).
  13. verb To become, or appear to become, longer and thinner.
  14. verb To become tangled. “The cables spaghettied onto the shoulder of the technician.”

Synonyms

pasghetti sketti spag macaroni pizzahead

Etymology

The noun is borrowed from Italian spaghetti, the plural of spaghetto (“strand of spaghetti”), from spago (“cord, string, twine; thread”) + -etto (diminutive suffix). Spago is derived from Latin spagus (“twine”), probably from Ancient Greek σφάκος (sphákos, “apple sage (Salvia pomifera)”), probably from Pre-Greek. The verb is derived from the noun.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A variety or macaroni made in tubes of small diameter.

Etymology [It.]

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