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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august

UK /ɔːˈɡʌst/ · US /ɔˈɡʌst/ adjective, verb, proper noun

Forms auguster augustest augusts augusting augusted Aug Aug. Aguste Augost

  1. adjective Awe-inspiring, majestic, noble, venerable. “an august patron of the arts”
  2. adjective Of noble birth. “an august lineage”
  3. verb (obsolete, rare) To make ripe; ripen.
  4. verb (obsolete, rare) To bring to realization.
  5. proper noun The eighth month of the Roman, Julian, and Gregorian calendars, following July and preceding September.
  6. proper noun (now rare) A female given name from English derived from the month (of birth).
  7. proper noun A male given name from Latin.
  8. proper noun A surname from Latin.
  9. proper noun A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California, United States.

Synonyms

Eighth Month Sextilis Sextile Aug grand lordly revered venerable

Etymology

From French auguste (“noble, stately; august”) or Latin augustus (“majestic, venerable, august; imperial, royal”), from augeō (“to augment, increase; to enlarge, expand, spread”). Doublet of August and Augustus.

From August.

Early Middle English August(us), re-Latinized from Old English Agustus, from Late Latin Agustus, from Latin augustus (“month of August”), from the agnomen Augustus (“venerable”) of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, possibly from either Old Latin *augos (“increase”), from Proto-Italic *augos, from Proto-Indo-European base *h₂ewg- (“to increase”); or Latin avis (“bird”), referring to divination by observing bird flights, singing, feeding or entrails + garrīre (“to chatter”). Doublet of august and Augustus.

In some cases a month name from English. In other cases inspired by the common German given name August, from Latin Augustus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of a quality inspiring mingled admiration and reverence; having an aspect of solemn dignity or grandeur; sublime; majestic; having exalted birth, character, state, or authority. "Forms august." Pope.
  2. noun The eighth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

Etymology [L. augustus; cf. augere to increase; in the language of religion, to honor by offerings: cf. F. auguste. See Augment.]

Etymology [L. Augustus. See note below, and August, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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