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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

temperature

/ˈtɛm.p(ə.)ɹə.t͡ʃə/ noun

Forms temperatures

  1. noun A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer. “The boiling temperature of pure water is 100 degrees Celsius.”
  2. noun An elevated body temperature, as present in many illnesses; fever. “You have a temperature. I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.”
  3. noun (thermodynamics) A property of macroscopic amounts of matter that serves to gauge the average intensity of the random actual motions of the individually mobile particulate constituents.
  4. noun (machine learning) A parameter that controls the degree of randomness of the output.
  5. noun (figurative, colloquial) The general mood.
  6. noun (obsolete) The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
  7. noun (now rare, archaic) The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin temperātūra (cf. also French température), from the past participle stem of tempero (“to temper”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Constitution; state; degree of any quality.
  2. noun Freedom from passion; moderation. [Obs.]

Etymology [F. température, L. temperatura due measure, proportion, temper, temperament.]

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

Sanskrit

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