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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benedict

/ˈbɛnədɪkt/ noun, adjective, verb, proper noun

Forms benedicts benedicting benedicted Bene't

  1. noun (rare) A newly married man, especially one who was previously a confirmed bachelor.
  2. adjective (obsolete) Having mild and salubrious qualities.
  3. verb (rare) to bless.
  4. verb (of eggs) To poach and serve on an English muffin with ham or bacon and hollandaise sauce.
  5. proper noun (countable) A male given name from Latin, particularly of the sixth-century founder of the Benedictine order, and of several popes.
  6. proper noun (countable) A surname originating as a patronymic.
  7. proper noun A minor city in Wilson County, Kansas, United States, named after S. S. Benedict.
  8. proper noun A census-designated place in Maryland, United States.
  9. proper noun A village in Nebraska, United States.
  10. proper noun A city and village in North Dakota, United States.

Synonyms

Ruth Benedict Ruth Fulton Saint Benedict St. Benedict benedick

Antonyms

maledict

Etymology

From Benedicke (normalized to the usual spelling, Benedict), a character in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (1598).

From Latin benedictus, past participle of benedicere (“to bless”). See benison. Doublet of bennet.

From Saint Benedict, founder of the Benedictine Order, from Late Latin Benedictus, from benedictus (“blessed, well spoken of”), from Latin benedīcō (“to bless, to speak well of”). Doublet of Bennett, Benoit, and Benito.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A married man, or a man newly married.
  2. adjective Having mild and salubrious qualities. [Obs.] Bacon.

Etymology [From Benedick, one of the characters in Shakespeare's play of "Much Ado about Nothing."]

Etymology [L. benedictus, p. p. of benedicere to bless. See Benison, and cf. Bennet.]

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