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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trinitarian

UK /ˌtɹɪn.ɪˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/ · US /ˌtɹɪn.ɪˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/ noun, adjective

Forms trinitarians

  1. noun Someone who believes in the Trinity, the three persons of the Godhead.
  2. noun A member of the Trinitarian order.
  3. adjective Believing in the Trinity.
  4. adjective Of or pertaining to the Trinity (the three persons of the Godhead) or to the doctrine of Trinity.
  5. adjective (uncommon) Of or pertaining to a trinity, a group of three (almost exclusively when compared to the Christian Trinity).

Antonyms

antitrinitarian unitarian nontrinitarian

Etymology

From French trinitaire (from Medieval Latin trinitarius, from Latin trinitas + -arius) + -ian.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to the Trinity, the doctrine of the Trinity, or believers in that doctrine.
  2. noun One who believes in the doctrine of the Trinity.
  3. noun One of a monastic order founded in Rome in 1198 by St. John of Matha, and an old French hermit, Felix of Valois, for the purpose of redeeming Christian captives from the Mohammedans.

Etymology [Cf. F. trinitaire. See Trinity.]

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