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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potency

/ˈpəʊtənsi/ noun

Forms potencies

  1. noun Power, authority.
  2. noun The ability or capacity to perform something
  3. noun (usually of men) Sexual virility: the ability to become erect or achieve orgasm.
  4. noun (of alcoholic drinks, of drugs) Concentration; strength
  5. noun Potentiality, ability, capacity.
  6. noun (mathematics, dated) Cardinality.

Synonyms

authority authorization authorisation dominance say-so effectiveness strength potential potentiality potence

Antonyms

impotence impotency

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin potentia. Doublet of Potenza.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The quality or state of being potent; physical or moral power; inherent strength; energy; ability to effect a purpose; capability; efficacy; influence. "Drugs of potency." Hawthorne.

Etymology [L. potentia, from potens, -entis, potent. See Potent, and cf. Potance, Potence, Puissance.]

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

Sanskrit

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