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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sublunary

UK /sʌbˈluːnəɹi/ · US /sʌbˈlunəɹi/ adjective, noun

Forms sublunaries

  1. adjective (chiefly historical) Situated beneath the moon; specifically, between the moon and the earth.
  2. adjective In or of this world (as opposed to heaven, etc.); earthly, terrestrial.
  3. adjective Of or relating to the material world (as opposed to clerical, sacred, or spiritual); ephemeral, temporal, worldly.
  4. adjective (figurative) Inferior, subordinate.
  5. noun A person or thing which is of the (material) world.
  6. noun A less important person; an inferior, a subordinate.

Synonyms

sublunar cislunar terrestrial

Antonyms

superlunary superlunar translunar translunary celestial ethereal heavenly otherworldly unworldly

Etymology

The adjective is a learned borrowing from Late Latin sublūnāris (“sublunar, sublunary”) + English -ary (suffix meaning of or pertaining to forming adjectives). Sublūnāris is derived from Latin sub- (prefix meaning ‘below, beneath, under’) + lūnāris (“of or pertaining to the moon, lunar”) (from lūna (“moon”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to see; to shine”)) + -āris (suffix forming adjectives denoting a pertaining to or relationship)). By surface analysis, sub- + lunary.
The noun is derived from the adjective.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Situated beneath the moon; hence, of or pertaining to this world; terrestrial; earthly.
  2. noun Any worldly thing. [Obs.]

Etymology [Pref. sub + lunar, or lunary: cf. F. sublunaire.]

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