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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posterior

UK /pɒsˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/ · US /poʊˈstɪɹ.i.ɚ/ adjective, noun

Forms posteriors posteriour

  1. adjective (medicine) Relating to or denoting presentation of a fetus in which the rear or caudal end is nearest the cervix and emerges first at birth.
  2. adjective (botany) Next to, or facing the main stem or axis.
  3. adjective (formal) Following in order or in time.
  4. noun (sometimes euphemistic, sometimes humorous) The posterior portions of the human body; especially, the buttocks.
  5. noun (mathematics) The probability that a hypothesis is true (calculated by Bayes' theorem).

Synonyms

back hinder rear later 'tocks arse arse cheeks ass ass cheeks backside batty behind blessed assurance booty botty bottom bum bum cheeks buns butt buttocks nates can fundament hindquarters hind end keister prat rear end rump

Antonyms

anterior prior prior probability

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin posterior (“that comes or follows after; later, latter”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; --opposed to prior.
  2. adjective Situated behind; hinder; --opposed to anterior.

Etymology [L. posterior, compar. of posterus coming after, from post after. See Post-.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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