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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traumatic

UK /tɹɔːˈmætɪk/ · US /tɹɔˈmætɪk/ adjective, noun

Forms traumatics

  1. adjective Of, caused by, or causing trauma.
  2. adjective (medicine, dated) Of or relating to wounds; applied to wounds.
  3. adjective (dated) Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary.
  4. adjective Produced by wounds, especially as opposed to disease or other process. “traumatic tetanus; traumatic brain injury”
  5. noun (dated, medicine) A medicine for wounds; a vulnerary.

Antonyms

non-traumatic nontraumatic untraumatic

Etymology

From the Latin traumaticus, from the Ancient Greek τραυματικός (traumatikós), from τραῦμα (traûma). By surface analysis, trauma + -tic.

From the Latin [medicāmentum] traumaticum, from traumaticus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective A traumatic medicine.

Etymology [L. traumaticus, Gr. traumatique.]

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