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

putrid

UK /ˈpjuː.tɹɪd/ · US /ˈpju.tɹəd/ adjective

  1. adjective Rotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction. [from 14th c.] “putrid flesh; putrid matter; putrid meat”
  2. adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of putrefaction, especially having a bad smell, like that of rotting flesh. “putrid smell; putrid odor”
  3. adjective Vile, disgusting.
  4. adjective Morally corrupt.
  5. adjective Totally objectionable.

Synonyms

malodorous

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French putride or directly from Latin putridus (“rotten, decayed”), from putreō (“to be rotten or putrid”), from puter (“rotten, decaying, putrid”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Tending to decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; --said of animal or vegetable matter; as, putrid flesh. See Putrefaction.
  2. adjective Indicating or proceeding from a decayed state of animal or vegetable matter; as, a putrid smell. Putrid fever (Med.), typhus fever; --so called from the decomposing and offensive state of the discharges and diseased textures of the body.

Etymology [L. putridus, fr. putrere to be rotten, fr.puter, or putris, rotten, fr. putere to stink, to be rotten: cf. F. putride. See Pus, Foul, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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