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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orthodox

UK /ˈɔːθədɒks/ · US /ˈɔɹθədɑks/ adjective, noun

Forms Orthodoxes

  1. adjective Conforming to the accepted, established, or traditional doctrines of a given faith, religion, or ideology.
  2. adjective Adhering to whatever is customary, traditional, or generally accepted.
  3. adjective Of the eastern churches, Eastern Orthodox.
  4. adjective Of a branch of Judaism.
  5. adjective (botany) Of pollen, seed, or spores: viable for a long time; viable when dried to low moisture content.
  6. adjective (Christianity) Of or pertaining to the Orthodox Churches collectively.
  7. adjective (Christianity, loosely) Of or pertaining to a particular Orthodox Church, usually the Eastern Orthodox Church, sometimes the Oriental Orthodox Church or the Church of the East.
  8. adjective (Judaism) Of or pertaining to Orthodox Judaism.
  9. adjective (Quakerism) Of or pertaining to the Orthodox Quakers, a group of Quakers (subdivided into the Wilburite, Gurneyite and Beaconite branches) who split with the Hicksite Quakers due to favoring adopting mainstream Protestant orthodoxy.
  10. noun (uncommon) An Orthodox Christian.
  11. noun (rare) An Orthodox Jew.

Synonyms

homodox conservative conventional halal kosher by the book allowed customary natural official proper routine traditional Jewish-Orthodox Eastern Orthodox Russian Orthodox Greek Orthodox

Antonyms

heretical heterodox inorthodox nonorthodox unorthodox blasphemous haram sinful treyf unkosher anarchistic idiosyncratic

Etymology

From Late Middle English orthodoxe, from Middle French orthodoxe and its etymon Late Latin orthodoxus, from Ancient Greek ὀρθόδοξος (orthódoxos), from ὀρθός (orthós, “straight”) + δόξα (dóxa, “opinion”). Displaced native Old English wuldorlīċ.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Sound in opinion or doctrine, especially in religious doctrine; hence, holding the Christian faith; believing the doctrines taught in the Scriptures; --opposed to Ant: heretical and Ant: heterodox; as, an orthodox Christian.
  2. adjective According or congruous with the doctrines of Scripture, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, or the like; as, an orthodox opinion, book, etc.

Etymology [L. orthodoxus, Gr. orthodoxe. See Ortho-, Dogma.]

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

Sanskrit

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