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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.

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phoenix

/ˈfiːnɪks/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms phoenixes phoenices phoenixing phoenixed phenix phœnix

  1. noun (mythology) A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.
  2. noun (figuratively) Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed. “Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.”
  3. noun (Chinese mythology) A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies; a fenghuang.
  4. noun (historical) A Greek silver coin used briefly from 1828 to 1832, divided into 100 lepta.
  5. noun (obsolete) A marvelous person or thing.
  6. noun A geometer moth of species Eulithis prunata.
  7. verb (Australia) To transfer assets from one company to another to dodge liability
  8. proper noun (mythology) A mythical firebird; especially the sacred one from ancient Egyptian mythology.
  9. proper noun (astronomy) A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the mythical bird. It lies north of Tucana.
  10. proper noun A companion of Achilles to the Trojan War in the Iliad, son of Amyntor and father of Adonis.
  11. proper noun A son of Agenor and Telephassa, brother of Europa and Cadmus, eponym of Phoenicia.
  12. proper noun A port town of ancient Lycia, in modern Antalya Province, Turkey; modern Finike.
  13. proper noun A town of ancient Caria, near modern-day Taşlıca Marmaris district, Muğla Province, Turkey.
  14. proper noun A port town of ancient Crete, in the modern municipality of Sfakia, Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece; modern Loutro.
  15. proper noun A port town of ancient Crete, in the modern municipality of Agios Vasileios, Rethymno regional unit, Crete, Greece; modern Foinikas.
  16. noun A German breed of long-tailed chicken.
  17. noun A white variety of grape of German origin used for winemaking.

Synonyms

capital of Arizona genus Phoenix

Etymology

From Old English and Old French fenix, from Medieval Latin phenix, from Latin phoenīx, from Ancient Greek φοῖνιξ (phoînix), from Egyptian b-n:nw*w-G31 (bnw, “grey heron”). Doublet of Bennu. The grey heron was venerated at Heliopolis and associated in Egypt with the cyclical renewal of life because the bird rises in flight at dawn and migrates back every year in the flood season to inhabit the Nile waters.

From Latin phoenīx, Phoenīx, from Ancient Greek φοῖνῐξ (phoînĭx), Φοῖνῐξ (Phoînĭx).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Same as Phenix. Shak.
  2. noun A genus of palms including the date tree.

Etymology [L., a fabulous bird. See Phenix.]

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