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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tetrarch

UK /ˈtɛtɹɑːk/ · US /ˈtɛtɹɑɹk/ noun, adjective

Forms tetrarchs

  1. noun A governor or ruler of a quarter of a country, especially of a fourth part of a province in or client state of Ancient Rome.
  2. noun Each of the four members of a jointly ruling tetrarchy, notably of the Roman Empire since Diocletian.
  3. noun An officer in charge of a fourth part of a phalanx in Ancient Greece.
  4. adjective (botany) Having four vascular strands in a fibrovascular cylinder or stele.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tetrarchēs, from Ancient Greek τετράρχης (tetrárkhēs), from τετρα- (tetra-, “four”) + -άρχης (-árkhēs, “ruler, leader”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A Roman governor of the fourth part of a province; hence, any subordinate or dependent prince; also, a petty king or sovereign.
  2. adjective Four. [Obs.] Fuller.

Etymology [L. tetrarches, Gr. Tetra-) + tétrarque. See Arch, a.]

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