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

prose

UK /ˈpɹəʊz/ · US /ˈpɹoʊz/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms proses prosing prosed

  1. noun Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry. “Though known mostly for her prose, she also produced a small body of excellent poems.”
  2. noun Language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
  3. noun (Roman Catholicism) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass.
  4. verb To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.
  5. proper noun A surname from German.

Antonyms

poetry verse

Etymology

From Middle English prose, from Old French prose, from Latin prōsa (“straightforward”) from the term prōsa ōrātiō (“a straightforward speech – i.e. without the ornaments of verse”).
further etymology and related terms
The term prōsa (“straightforward”), a colloquial form of prorsa (“straight forwards”), the feminine form prorsus (“straight forwards”), from Old Latin prōvorsus (“moving straight ahead”), from pro- (“forward”) + vorsus (“turned”), form of vertō (“to turn”). Compare verse.

Borrowed from German Pröse, from a short form of the personal name Ambrose.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; --contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition.
  2. noun Hence, language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
  3. adjective Pertaining to, or composed of, prose; not in verse; as, prose composition.
  4. adjective Possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain; dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life.

Etymology [F. prose, L. prosa, fr. prorsus, prosus, straight forward, straight on, for proversus; pro forward + versus, p. p. of vertere to turn. See Verse.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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