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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atlas

/ˈætləs/ noun, proper noun

Forms atlases atlantes atlasses

  1. noun A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.
  2. noun A bound collection of tables, illustrations, etc. on any given subject.
  3. noun (chiefly in anatomy, especially of the human body) A detailed visual conspectus of something of great and multi-faceted complexity, with its elements splayed so as to be presented in as discrete a manner as possible whilst retaining a realistic view of the whole.
  4. noun (differential geometry, topology) A family of coordinate charts that cover a manifold.
  5. noun (anatomy) The uppermost vertebra of the cervical spine in the neck in humans and some other animals.
  6. noun One who supports a heavy burden; mainstay.
  7. noun (architecture) A figure of a man used as a column.
  8. noun (paper) A sheet of paper measuring 26 inches by 34 inches.
  9. noun (historical) A rich satin fabric.
  10. proper noun (Greek mythology) The son of Iapetus and Clymene, war leader of the Titans ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders; father to the Hesperides, the Hyades, and the Pleiades; king of the legendary Atlantis.
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Pike County, Illinois.
  12. proper noun A township in Genesee County, Michigan.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Lamar County, Texas.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia.
  15. proper noun An unincorporated community in Laketown, Polk County, Wisconsin.
  16. proper noun (astronomy) A moon of Saturn.
  17. proper noun (astronomy) A crater in the last quadrant of the moon.
  18. noun (astronautics, military, US) A particular model or individual specimen of the Atlas missile and launch vehicle line.
  19. proper noun A subgroup of the Berber languages.
  20. proper noun (astronomy, geography) A comet, an interstellar object visiting the Solar System, on a hyperbolic orbit. Named after the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System.

Synonyms

atlanto- atlo- atlantid telamon 3I/ATLAS book of maps map collection atlas vertebra

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Atlas, from the name of the Ancient Greek mythological figure Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”), from τλῆναι (tlênai, “to suffer”, “to endure”, “to bear”). The sense referring to books of maps comes from the Atlas of Mercator, which he named thus in honor of Atlas, who was supposed to be skillful in astronomy and the doctrine of the sphere. The sense referring to the vertebra reflects that the spine carries the globe of the cranium (the neck carries the head).

From Arabic أَطْلَس (ʔaṭlas, “satin”).

From Latin Ā̆tlās, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), either from ἁ- (ha-, copulative prefix) + Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“bear, undergo, endure”) or of Pre-Greek origin.

From French Atlas. From the Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), stemming from the belief that the mountain range is actually the body of the Titan Atlas after being turned to stone. The Berber languages exist in the region of the Atlas Mountains.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who sustains a great burden.
  2. noun The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name.
  3. noun A rich kind of satin manufactured in India. Brande & C.

Etymology [L. Atlas, -antis, Gr. Atlas, in W. Africa, regarded as the pillar of heaven. It is from the root of Tolerate.]

Etymology [Ar., smooth.]

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