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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Latin

/ˈlæt.ɪn/ adjective, proper noun, noun

Forms Latins

  1. adjective Of or relating to Latin: the language spoken in ancient Rome and other cities of Latium.
  2. adjective Of or relating to the script of the language spoken in ancient Rome and many modern alphabets.
  3. adjective Of or relating to ancient Rome or its Empire.
  4. adjective Of or relating to Latium (modern Lazio), the region around Rome.
  5. adjective Of or relating to the customs and people descended from the ancient Romans and their Empire.
  6. adjective Of or from Latin America or of Latin American culture.
  7. adjective (Christianity) Roman Catholic; of or pertaining to the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.
  8. proper noun (uncountable) The language of the ancient Romans, other Latins and of the Roman Catholic church, especially Classical Latin.
  9. proper noun The Latin alphabet or writing system.
  10. proper noun (printing) The nonsense placeholder text (often based on real Latin) used in greeking.
  11. noun (historical) A person native to ancient Rome or its Empire.
  12. noun (historical) A member of an Italic tribe that included the early inhabitants of the city of Rome, and from about 1000 BCE inhabited the region known as Old Latium.
  13. noun A person from one of the modern European countries (including Italy, Spain etc.) whose language is descended from Latin.
  14. noun A person from Latin America.
  15. noun (Christianity) A person adhering to Roman Catholic practice.
  16. proper noun A surname from Middle English.

Synonyms

Roman Latian Romance Latin American Latino Catholic Roman Catholic Latial

Etymology

From Middle English Latyn, Latyne, Latin, from Old French latin, latyn, from Latin latīnus, from Latium (“the region around Rome”) + -īnus (adjective suffix). Displaced or merged with Old English Lǣden. Doublet of Ladin and Ladino.

From Middle English Latin, Latyn, from Old English Lǣden, from Vulgar Latin *ladinum (“Latin”) and Old French latin (“Latin”); all from Latin Latinus (“belonging to Latium”). Later influenced in form by the Latin word. Compare Dutch Latijn (“Latin”), German Latein (“Latin”), Swedish Latin (“Latin”).

Metonymic occupational surname for a Latinist, a clerk or keeper of Latin records, from Middle English Latyn. Compare Latimer.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language.
  2. adjective Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by the Romans or Latins; as, a Latin grammar; a Latin composition or idiom. Latin Church (Eccl. Hist.), the Western or Roman Catholic Church, as distinct from the Greek or Eastern Church.
  3. noun A native or inhabitant of Latium; a Roman.
  4. noun The language of the ancient Romans.

Etymology [F., fr. L. Latinus belonging to Latium, Latin, fr. Latium a country of Italy, in which Rome was situated. Cf. Ladin, Lateen sail, under Lateen.]

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