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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epic

/ˈɛp.ɪk/ noun, adjective

Forms epics epick

  1. noun An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero. “The Icelandic epic took all night to recite.”
  2. noun A series of events considered appropriate to an epic; any work of literature, film, etc. having heroic deeds and adventures as its subject matter. “The book was an epic in four volumes.”
  3. noun (software engineering) A large or extended user story.
  4. adjective Of or relating to an epic. “Beowulf is an epic poem.”
  5. adjective Momentously heroic; grand in scale or character. “The epic defense was rewarded with the highest military decorations”
  6. adjective (colloquial) Extending beyond the usual or ordinary. “The after-prom party was truly epic.”
  7. adjective (category theory, of a morphism) That is an epimorphism.
  8. adjective Pertaining to a dialect characteristic of epic poems, especially Epic Greek.

Synonyms

epopee epos epical extraordinary momentous remarkable epic poem heroic poem heroic larger-than-life

Etymology

From Middle French épique, from Latin epicus, from Ancient Greek ἐπικός (epikós), from ἔπος (épos, “word, story”).

From epi-, from Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí, “on top of”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or fictitious events, usually the achievements of some hero, are narrated in an elevated style.
  2. noun An epic or heroic poem. See Epic, a.

Etymology [L. epicus, Gr. vox voice: cf. F. épique. See Voice.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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