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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

tripoli

/ˈtɹɪpəli/ noun, proper noun

Forms tripolis Tripoly

  1. noun (geology) A sedimentary rock composed of the shells of diatoms etc., used for polishing.
  2. proper noun A city in the Peloponnese region, Greece, also known as Tripolis.
  3. proper noun The capital city of Libya, originally three separate settlements known as Oea, Sabratha, and Leptis Magna.
  4. proper noun (metonymic) The Libyan government.
  5. proper noun A city in Lebanon, originally jointly administered by the three cities of Tyre, Sidon, and Aradus.
  6. proper noun A city in Bremer County, Iowa, United States.
  7. proper noun An unincorporated community in Lincoln County and Oneida County, Wisconsin, United States.
  8. proper noun A city in Greece.

Synonyms

Oea rottenstone Tarabulus Al-Gharb capital of Libya Tarabulus Tarabulus Ash-Sham Trablous

Etymology

Originally brought from Tripoli in Libya.

Borrowed from Italian Tripoli, from Latin Tripolis, from Ancient Greek Τρίπολις (Trípolis), from τρι- (tri-, “three”) + πολις (polis, “city, city-state”). In reference to American cities, after US actions off Tripoli in Libya during the First Barbary War. Doublet of Tripolis, Tirebolu, and Tripura.

From modern Greek Τρίπολη (Trípoli) used from the 19th century in place of Byzantine Greek Τριπολιτσά (Tripolitsá), probably from Slavic Droboliza.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An earthy substance originally brought from Tripoli, used in polishing stones and metals. It consists almost wholly of the siliceous shells of diatoms.

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