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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spice

/spaɪs/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms spices spicing spiced

  1. noun (countable, uncountable) Aromatic or pungent plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavor food.
  2. noun (uncountable) The quality of being spicy. “What spice level do you want for your pad thai? I recommend mild.”
  3. noun (figurative, uncountable) Appeal, interest; an attribute that makes something appealing, interesting, or engaging. “variety is the spice of life”
  4. noun (uncountable) A psychoactive neocannabinoid.
  5. noun (uncountable, Yorkshire) Sweets, candy. “Let's go daan to t'spice shop an see what they've i stock”
  6. noun (obsolete) Species; kind.
  7. noun A characteristic touch or taste; smack; flavour.
  8. noun An aromatic odor.
  9. verb (transitive) To add spice or spices to; season.
  10. verb (transitive) To spice up.
  11. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

spiciness spicery spice up zest

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English spice, from Old French espice (modern épice), from Late Latin speciēs (“spice, good, ware”), from Latin speciēs (“kind, sort”). Doublet of species.

Formed by analogy with lice and mice as the plurals of louse and mouse.
First attested use Christopher Morley in “Morley's Magnum” (1935).
Made popular by Robert A. Heinlein in Time Enough for Love (1973).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Species; kind. [Obs.]
  2. noun A vegetable production of many kinds, fragrant or aromatic and pungent to the taste, as pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, allspice, ginger, cloves, etc., which are used in cookery and to flavor sauces, pickles, etc. Hast thou aught in thy purse [bag] any hot spices Piers Plowman.
  3. verb To season with spice, or as with spice; to mix aromatic or pungent substances with; to flavor; to season; as, to spice wine; to spice one's words with wit. She 'll receive thee, but will spice thy bread With flowery poisons.
  4. verb To fill or impregnate with the odor of spices.

Etymology [OE. spice, spece, spice, species, OF. espice, espece, F. épice spice, espèce species, fr. L. species particular sort or kind, a species, a sight, appearance, show, LL., spices, drugs, etc., of the same sort, fr. L. specere to look. See Spy, and cf. Species.]

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

Sanskrit

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