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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unitarian

UK /ˌjuːnɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/ · US /ˌjunəˈtɛɹi.ən/ adjective, noun

Forms unitarians

  1. adjective Espousing a unitary view of God. “the unitarian position on deity”
  2. adjective Espousing a unitary view of national government. “the unitarian position on executive power”
  3. noun (Christianity) A Christian who denies the doctrine of the Trinity, usually stressing some distinctions between God the Father and God the Son without denying the divinity of Jesus.
  4. noun (Islam) Synonym of Muwahhid, a Muslim advocating God's strict unity.
  5. noun (uncommon) Synonym of monotheist, a believer in the unity of God, particularly non-Christians (Muslims, Jews, etc.) discussed from a Christian perspective.
  6. noun A person who rejects dualism in other contexts.
  7. noun A follower of Unitarian Universalism or a similar non-creedal (non-dogmatic) religion (either Christian or non-Christian) that originated historically from Christian Unitarianism.
  8. noun A member of a political movement advocating a unitary state rather than a federal one, especially the Unitarios of nineteenth century Argentina (known as the Unitarian Party in English).
  9. adjective Pertaining to Unitarianism.

Synonyms

unipersonalist Arian Muwahhid monotheist Unitarian Universalist

Antonyms

antiunitarian nonunitarian trinitarian dualist

Etymology

Related to New Latin ūnitārius (from Latin ūnitās (“unity”)) -an. First documented as unitaria religio, in a decree of the Diet of Lécfalva (1600). In English since 1687 By surface analysis, unitary + -ian.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who denies the doctrine of the Trinity, believing that God exists only in one person; a unipersonalist; also, one of a denomination of Christians holding this belief.
  2. noun One who rejects the principle of dualism.
  3. adjective Of or pertaining to Unitarians, or their doctrines.

Etymology [Cf. F. unitaire, unitairien, NL. unitarius. See Unity.]

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