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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persistent

UK /pəˈsɪstənt/ · US /pɚˈsɪstənt/ adjective

  1. adjective Obstinately refusing to give up or let go. “She has had a persistent cough for weeks.”
  2. adjective Insistently repetitive. “There was a persistent knocking on the door.”
  3. adjective Indefinitely continuous. “There have been persistent rumours for years.”
  4. adjective (botany) Lasting past maturity without falling off. “Pine cones have persistent scales.”
  5. adjective (computing) Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it. “Once written to a disk file, the data becomes persistent: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.”
  6. adjective (mathematics) Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
  7. adjective (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient.

Synonyms

relentless unrelenting haunting lasting dogged dour pertinacious tenacious unyielding

Antonyms

caducous

Etymology

From Latin persistentem, present participle of persistō (“continue steadfastly”). By surface analysis, persist + -ent.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose.
  2. adjective Remaining beyond the period when parts of the same kind sometimes fall off or are absorbed; permanent; as, persistent teeth or gills; a persistent calyx; --opposed to deciduous, and caducous.

Etymology [L. persistens, -entis, p.pr. of persistere. See Persist.]

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

Sanskrit

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