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

trapezium

/tɹæˈpi.zi.əm/ noun

Forms trapeziums trapezia

  1. noun (geometry, UK, Australia, New Zealand) A quadrilateral with two sides parallel.
  2. noun (restrictively) A quadrilateral with two sides parallel and two sides non-parallel.
  3. noun (geometry, US, dated) A four-sided polygon with no parallel sides and no sides equal; a simple convex irregular quadrilateral.
  4. noun (anatomy) The trapezium bone of the wrist.
  5. noun A region on the ventral side of the brain, either just back of the pons Varolii, or, as in man, covered by the posterior extension of its transverse fibers.

Synonyms

trapezoid irregular quadrilateral trapeze trapezium bone os trapezium

Antonyms

parallelogram

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin trapezium, borrowed from Ancient Greek τρᾰπέζῐον (trăpézĭon, “irregular quadrilateral”, literally “small table”), from τράπεζα (trápeza, “table”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix). First attested in 1570. Doublet of trapeze.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel.
  2. noun (a) A bone of the carpus at the base of the first metacarpal, or thumb.

Etymology [NL., fr. Gr. Tetra-) + Foot.]

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

Sanskrit

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