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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

maxim

/ˈmæk.sɪm/ noun, proper noun

Forms maxims Maxim gun

  1. noun (now rare) A self-evident axiom or premise; a pithy expression of a general principle or rule.
  2. noun A precept; a succinct statement or observation of a rule of conduct or moral teaching.
  3. proper noun A surname
  4. noun (firearms) The Maxim gun, a British machine gun of various calibres used by the British army from 1889 until World War I.
  5. noun (firearms) Any machine gun that derives from the design pattern of Maxim's patented design
  6. noun (firearms, informal, obsolete) A machine gun

Synonyms

Synonym: aphorism cliche enthymeme proverb saying Maxim gun Vickers gun axiom Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman maxime and Middle French maxime, from Late Latin maxima (“axiom”), noun use of the feminine singular form of Latin maximus (apparently as used in the phrase prōpositiō maxima (“greatest premise”)). Doublet of maxima.

From Sir Hiram Maxim.

* (machine guns): After the inventor Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An established principle or proposition; a condensed proposition of important practical truth; an axiom of practical wisdom; an adage; a proverb; an aphorism.
  2. noun The longest note formerly used, equal to two longs, or four breves; a large.

Etymology [F. maxime, L. maxima (sc. sententia), the greatest sentence, proposition, or axiom, i. e., of the greatest weight or authority, fem. fr. maximus greatest, superl. of magnus great. See Magnitude, and cf. Maximum.]

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

Sanskrit

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