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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

malleus

/ˈmæl.i.əs/ noun

Forms mallei

  1. noun (anatomy) The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear. “A fracture of the malleus handle is a rare traumatic middle ear lesion.”
  2. noun (ichthyology) The tripus (ossicle in cypriniform fishes).
  3. noun (zoology) One of the paired calcareous structures within the mastax of rotifers.

Synonyms

hammer malleus Weberi tripus

Etymology

From Latin malleus (“hammer, mallet”). Doublet of maul.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far.
  2. noun One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of Rotifera. See Mastax.

Etymology [L., hammer. See Mall a beetle.]

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