Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iː	see	ɪ	sit	e / ɛ	bed	æ	cat
ɑː	father	ɒ	hot (UK)	ɔː	law	ʊ	put
uː	too	ʌ	cup	ɜː	bird	ə	about
eɪ	day	aɪ	my	ɔɪ	boy	aʊ	now
əʊ / oʊ	go (UK / US)	ɪə	near	eə	hair	ʊə	tour

Consonants that look unusual

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

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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adversary

UK /ˈæd.və.sɛɹi/ · US /ˈæd.vəɹˌsɛɹi/ noun, proper noun

Forms adversaries the Adversary

noun A person, group, or thing that opposes or attacks another person or group; an opponent or rival. “He prepared to fight his adversary.”
proper noun (Christianity, sometimes Judaism) The Devil; Satan.

Synonyms

villain antagonist Satan opponent opposer resister

Antonyms

hero ally

Etymology

From Middle English adversarie, from Anglo-Norman aversaire (in Wace's Life of Saint Margaret) and Old French aversier, aversaire (French adversaire), from Latin adversārius, from adversus (“turned toward”). By surface analysis, adverse + -ary.

A biblical reference, Satan ultimately deriving from a borrowing of the Hebrew שָׂטָן (Śāṭān, “adversary, accuser”). (See also Satan).

Webster’s 1913

noun One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose
adjective Opposed; opposite; adverse; antagonistic. [Archaic] Bp. King.
adjective Having an opposing party; not unopposed; as, an adversary suit.

Etymology [OE. adversarie, direct fr. the Latin, and adversaire, fr. OF. adversier, aversier, fr. L. adversarius (a.) turned toward, (n.) an adversary. See Adverse.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “adversary” (best matches first).

प्रतिकञ्चुक prati-kañcuka an adversary.
प्रतिजन prati-jana an adversary.
अन्यतस्त्य anyatastya opponent, adversary.
परिपन्थिक pari-panthika an adversary, enemy.
प्रतिसंयोद्धृ prati-saṃyoddhṛ an adversary in war.
असखिन् a-sakhin an enemy, an adversary.
प्रतिपक्षिन् pratipakṣin an opponent, adversary.
प्रत्यर्थक pratyarthaka an opponent, adversary.

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