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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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strobile

noun

Forms strobiles strobil

  1. noun (botany) A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, such as the hop or pine.
  2. noun (biology) An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, such as a tapeworm or a jellyfish; one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.
  3. noun (zoology) A jointed series of segments in the body of an invertebrate.

Synonyms

strobilus cone strobila

Etymology

From Latin strobilus (“a pinecone”) and Latin strobila, from Ancient Greek στρόβιλος (stróbilos). All senses refer to things that look like, or somewhat like (via fancied resemblance), a pinecone.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, as the hop or pine; a cone. See Cone, n., 3.
  2. noun An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, --one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.

Etymology [L. strobilus a pine cone, Gr. strobole.]

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