Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

superscribe

/suːpəˈskɹʌɪb/ verb

Forms superscribes superscribing superscribed

verb (transitive) to write on the exterior of, the surface of, or above. “He superscribed each character with its Latin-alphabet equivalent.”
verb (transitive) to write (something) on the exterior of an object, such as a document or an envelope. “His wife superscribed her own notes on each of his letters before sending them in packets to the editor.”
verb (transitive) To address (an envelope etc.).

Etymology

From Latin superscrībo (“write over”). By surface analysis, super- + scribe.

verb To write or engrave (a name, address, inscription, or the like) on the top or surface; to write a name, address, or the like, on the outside or cover of (anything); as, to superscribe a letter.

Etymology [L. superscribere, superscriptum; super over + scribere to write. See Super-, and Scribe.]

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