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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tertiary

UK /ˈtɜː.ʃi.ə.ɹiː/ · US /ˈtɝ.ʃiˌɛɹ.i/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms tertiaries

  1. adjective Of third rank or order; subsequent.
  2. adjective (chemistry) Possessing some quality in the third degree; especially having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals. “a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt”
  3. adjective (ornithology) Of quills: growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial.
  4. noun Any item considered to be of third order.
  5. noun A tertiary colour.
  6. noun (geology) Something from the Tertiary Period (the former term for the geologic period from 65 million to 2.58 million years ago).
  7. noun (ornithology) A tertiary feather; a tertial.
  8. noun (military) A large stage in some extremely powerful thermonuclear weapons (resembling a greatly-enlarged secondary) which is compressed by the explosion of the secondary until ignition of nuclear fusion takes place, in much the same manner as the secondary is imploded by the primary, and which can allow for the attainment of yields of many tens or even hundreds of megatons, and likely even greater; not used in modern weapons due to a greater focus on the accurate use of sub-megaton weapons, the tremendous size of weapons incorporating a tertiary, and the lack of targets whose destruction would necessitate the use of a three-stage weapon.
  9. noun (Roman Catholicism) A member of a Roman Catholic third order; a layperson who participates in activities similar to those engaged in by men and women who take religious vows (respectively the first and second orders), and who may wear some elements of an order's habit such as a scapular.
  10. adjective (geology) Of or pertaining to the first part of the Cenozoic era when modern flora and mammals appeared.
  11. proper noun (geology) The first part of the Cenozoic era when modern flora and mammals appeared.

Synonyms

ternary tertial Tertiary period third 3rd

Etymology

Borrowed from the Latin tertiārius (“of the third part or rank”), from tertius (“third”) (from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥tyós, whence English third) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French tertiaire. By surface analysis, terti- + -ary.

See tertiary.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word. Trench.
  2. adjective Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary.
  3. noun A member of the Third Order in any monastic system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. See Third Order, under Third. Addis & Arnold.
  4. noun The Tertiary era, period, or formation.

Etymology [L. tertiarius containing a third part, fr. tertius third: cf. F. tertiaire. See Tierce.]

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