See -esse on Wiktionary
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"Middle French lemmas",
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"Middle French terms derived from Late Latin",
"Middle French terms derived from Old French",
"Middle French terms inherited from Late Latin",
"Middle French terms inherited from Old French",
"Pages using catfix",
"Pages with 7 entries",
"Pages with entries"
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}
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},
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}
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"msg": "unrecognized head form: noun-forming suffix",
"path": [
"-esse"
],
"section": "French",
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"title": "-esse",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
"msg": "unrecognized head form: noun-forming suffix",
"path": [
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],
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}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
"msg": "unrecognized head form: non-lemma form of verb-forming suffix",
"path": [
"-esse"
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"section": "Italian",
"subsection": "suffix",
"title": "-esse",
"trace": ""
}
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