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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.

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celibate

/ˈsɛləbət/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms celibates celibating celibated cælibate cœlibate

  1. adjective (chiefly religious) Not married.
  2. adjective (by extension) Abstaining from sexual relations and pleasures. “Members of religious communities sometimes take vows to remain celibate.”
  3. noun One who is not married, especially one who has taken a religious vow not to get married, usually because of being a member of a religious community.
  4. verb (rare, intransitive) To practice celibacy.
  5. noun (obsolete) A celibate state; celibacy.

Synonyms

unmarried single abstinent chaste pure volcel cel celibatist continent

Antonyms

copulator libertine sexual partner person

Etymology

Probably from the noun (“celibacy”) or from celibacy on the model of privacy/private, etc. Alternatively, from Latin caelebs (“single”) + -ate.

From Latin caelebs + -ate (noun-forming suffix)

From Latin caelebs + -ate (verb-forming suffix)

From French célibat (“celibacy”), from Latin caelibātus (“celibacy”), from caelebs (“unmarried”); compare German Zölibat (“celibacy”). Equivalent to Latin caelebs + -ate (forming nouns denoting a rank, a state)

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Celibate state; celibacy. [Obs.]
  2. noun One who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by vows not to marry.
  3. adjective Unmarried; single; as, a celibate state.

Etymology [L. aelibatus, fr. caelebs unmarried, single.]

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