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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terminus

UK /ˈtɜːmɪnəs/ · US /ˈtər.mə.nəs/ noun, proper noun

Forms termini terminuses

  1. noun The end or final point of something. “The river reached its terminus at the wide delta near the sea.”
  2. noun The end point of a transportation system, or the town or city in which it is located.
  3. noun (obsolete) A boundary or border, or a post or stone marking such a boundary. “A bronz statue marked the terminus of the king's dominion.”
  4. proper noun (Roman mythology) The god of boundaries and landmarks, focus of the important Roman festival of Terminalia.

Synonyms

terminal figure end point endpoint termination destination term terminal depot

Antonyms

origin

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin terminus (“boundary, limit”). Doublet of term, Terminus, and termon.

Learned borrowing from Latin terminus (“a boundary or border, a limit or point”). Doublet of terminus and term.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.
  2. noun The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line.

Etymology [L. See Term.]

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

Sanskrit

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