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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trinity

UK /ˈtɹɪnɪti/ · US /ˈtɹɪnəti/ noun, proper noun

Forms trinities

  1. noun A group or set of three people or things; three things combined into one.
  2. noun The state of being three; independence of three things; things divided into three.
  3. proper noun (Christianity) In Christian belief, the three persons of the Godhead: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
  4. proper noun A female given name from English used since the 1970s, from the religious term trinity, or translated from its long-established Spanish equivalent.
  5. proper noun A male given name.
  6. proper noun A small coastal town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
  7. proper noun A town in Alabama.
  8. proper noun A city in North Carolina.
  9. proper noun A city and town in Texas.
  10. proper noun The world's first nuclear explosion: a nuclear test on July 16, 1945, in New Mexico.

Synonyms

threesome triad trio trine troika triumvirate leash tern ternary ternion threeness trinary triplet triality Holy Trinity Triunity three 3 III tierce tercet terzetto trey deuce-ace Blessed Trinity Sacred Trinity

Etymology

From Middle English trinite, from Anglo-Norman trinite and Old French ternite (modern French trinité), from Latin trīnitās, from trīnī (“three each”), from trēs (“three”). By surface analysis, trine + -ity. Displaced native Old English þrines (literally “threeness”).

Proprialization of trinity.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The union of three persons (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost) in one Godhead, so that all the three are one God as to substance, but three persons as to individuality.
  2. noun Any union of three in one; three units treated as one; a triad, as the Hindoo trinity, or Trimurti.

Etymology [OE. trinitee, F. trinité, L. trinitas, fr. trini three each. See Trinal.]

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

Sanskrit

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