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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Calvary

/ˈkæl.v(ə.)ɹi/ proper noun, noun

Forms calvaries

  1. proper noun The hill outside Jerusalem which is traditionally held to be the location of the crucifixion of Jesus.
  2. noun A life-size representation of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on a piece of raised ground.
  3. noun A series of representations of Christ’s Passion in a church.
  4. noun A type of monumental public Christian cross, sometimes encased in an open shrine. “Calvaries are typical of Galicia (Spain) and Portugal.”
  5. noun (by extension, figuratively) A strenuous experience.

Synonyms

Golgotha martyrdom

Etymology

From Middle English Calvarie, from Latin calvāria (“skull”).

From Late Latin calvāria (“skull”). Doublet of calavera and calvaria.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The place where Christ was crucified, on a small hill outside of Jerusalem. Luke xxiii. 33.
  2. noun A representation of the crucifixion, consisting of three crosses with the figures of Christ and the thieves, often as large as life, and sometimes surrounded by figures of other personages who were present at the crucifixion.

Etymology [L. calvaria a bare skull, fr. calva the scalp without hair. fr. calvus bald; cf. F. calvaire.]

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