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

treble

/ˈtɹɛbəl/ adjective, adverb, noun, verb

Forms trebles trebling trebled

  1. adjective (music) Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part in harmonized music.
  2. adjective (dated) Threefold, triple.
  3. adverb (dated) Trebly; triply.
  4. noun (music) The highest singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition.
  5. noun (music) A person or instrument having a treble voice or pitch; a boy soprano.
  6. noun The highest tuned in a ring of bells.
  7. noun Any high-pitched or shrill voice or sound.
  8. noun (dated) A threefold quantity or number; something having three parts or having been tripled.
  9. noun (dated) A drink with three portions of alcohol; a triple
  10. noun (darts) Any of the narrow areas enclosed by the two central circles on a dartboard, worth three times the usual value of the segment.
  11. noun (sports) Three goals, victories, awards etc. in a given match or season.
  12. verb (transitive, dated) To multiply by three; to make into three parts, layers, or thrice the amount.
  13. verb (intransitive, dated) To become multiplied by three or increased threefold.
  14. verb (intransitive) To make a shrill or high-pitched noise.
  15. verb (transitive) To utter in a treble key; to whine.

Synonyms

high-pitched strident tern ternary threefold triadic trinary trine triple thrice thricely trebly triply keen screech shrill triplicate soprano three-fold triplex double dual twofold two-fold

Antonyms

deep third tripartition trisect

Etymology

From Middle English treble, from Old French treble, from Latin triplus. Doublet of triple.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Threefold; triple.
  2. adjective (a) Acute; sharp; as, a treble sound. Bacon.
  3. adverb Trebly; triply. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.
  4. noun The highest of the four principal parts in music; the part usually sung by boys or women; soprano.

Etymology [OE. treble threefold, OF. treble, treible, L. triplus. See Triple.]

Etymology [" It has been said to be a corruption of triplum [Lat.]

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

Sanskrit

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