"-ice" meaning in All languages combined

See -ice on Wiktionary

Suffix [Czech]

IPA: [ ɪt͡sɛ]
Rhymes: -ɪtsɛ Etymology: Inherited from Old Czech -icě, from Proto-Slavic *-ica. Etymology templates: {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|cs|zlw-ocs|-icě|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old Czech -icě, {{inh+|cs|zlw-ocs|-icě}} Inherited from Old Czech -icě, {{inh|cs|sla-pro|*-ica}} Proto-Slavic *-ica Head templates: {{cs-noun|f}} -ice f (noun-forming suffix) Inflection templates: {{cs-ndecl|f}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], -ice [nominative, singular], -ice [nominative, plural], -ice [genitive, singular], -ic [genitive, plural], -ici [dative, singular], -icím [dative, plural], -ici [accusative, singular], -ice [accusative, plural], -ice [singular, vocative], -ice [plural, vocative], -ici [locative, singular], -icích [locative, plural], -icí [instrumental, singular], -icemi [instrumental, plural]
  1. suffix indicating that the word is of the feminine gender Tags: feminine, morpheme

Suffix [English]

Etymology: From Anglo-Norman -ice and Old French -ice, from either (1) Latin -īcius (“adjective suffix”), from -īcus + -ius or (2) Latin -itia (“noun suffix denoting condition”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|xno|-ice}} Anglo-Norman -ice, {{bor|en|fro|-ice}} Old French -ice, {{der|en|la|-īcius||adjective suffix}} Latin -īcius (“adjective suffix”), {{suf|la|-īcus|-ius|nocat=1}} -īcus + -ius, {{der|en|la|-itia||noun suffix denoting condition}} Latin -itia (“noun suffix denoting condition”) Head templates: {{head|en|suffix|cat2=|cat3=|cat4=|head=|id=}} -ice, {{en-suffix}} -ice
  1. (no longer productive) Forms abstract nouns. Tags: idiomatic, morpheme Derived forms: avarice, justice, malice, matrician, patrician, patriciate, pederastice, precipice, service, solstice
    Sense id: en--ice-en-suffix-gUdPJzPa Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 6 entries: 21 30 13 14 4 4 11 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 18 26 11 12 5 6 18 4

Suffix [Latin]

IPA: [ɪ.kɛ] [Classical-Latin], [i.t͡ʃe] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Head templates: {{head|la|suffix form}} -ice
  1. vocative masculine singular of -icus Tags: form-of, masculine, morpheme, singular, vocative Form of: -icus
    Sense id: en--ice-la-suffix-VYOoUasS Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries

Suffix [Middle English]

Head templates: {{head|enm|suffix|altform=1}} -ice
  1. alternative form of -ik Tags: alt-of, alternative, morpheme Alternative form of: -ik
    Sense id: en--ice-enm-suffix-C5hIkVp~ Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries

Suffix [Portuguese]

Forms: -ices [plural], -ícia [alternative], -ície [alternative]
Etymology: From Old Galician-Portuguese -ice (also -ece), from Latin -itiem. The /i/ may reflect influence from -iço. Compare Spanish -ez. Etymology templates: {{inh|pt|roa-opt|-ice}} Old Galician-Portuguese -ice, {{inh|pt|la|-ities|-itiem}} Latin -itiem, {{cog|es|-ez}} Spanish -ez Head templates: {{pt-noun|f|-,+}} -ice f (noun-forming suffix, usually uncountable, plural -ices)
  1. forms nouns, from adjectives or nouns, denoting a quality or state; -ity; -ness Tags: feminine, morpheme, uncountable, usually Synonyms: -idade, -eira
    Sense id: en--ice-pt-suffix-Anko9f3s Categories (other): Pages using catfix, Portuguese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages using catfix: 49 51 Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with incorrect language header: 52 48
  2. forms nouns denoting an act or behaviour that is typical of the suffixed noun Tags: feminine, morpheme, uncountable, usually Synonyms: -agem, -ismo
    Sense id: en--ice-pt-suffix-4BFKmYYA Categories (other): Pages using catfix, Portuguese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages using catfix: 49 51 Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with incorrect language header: 52 48

Suffix [Spanish]

IPA: /ˈiθe/, [ˈi.θe], /ˈise/, [ˈi.se]
Rhymes: -iθe (Equatorial Guinea, Spain), -ise (Latin America, Philippines) Head templates: {{head|es|suffix form}} -ice
  1. inflection of -izar:
    first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    Tags: first-person, form-of, morpheme, present, singular, subjunctive, third-person Form of: -izar
    Sense id: en--ice-es-suffix-BqsrEZw5 Categories (other): Spanish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Spanish entries with incorrect language header: 79 21
  2. inflection of -izar:
    third-person singular imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, morpheme, singular, third-person Form of: -izar
    Sense id: en--ice-es-suffix-usBcwch0

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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        {
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      "ipa": "[ ɪt͡sɛ]"
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          "word": "-eira"
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  ],
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      "ipa": "/ˈiθe/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈi.θe]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈise/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈi.se]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iθe (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ise (Latin America, Philippines)"
    }
  ],
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}
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        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Old Czech -icě",
      "name": "inh"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "cs",
        "2": "zlw-ocs",
        "3": "-icě"
      },
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      "name": "inh+"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "2": "sla-pro",
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      },
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      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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        "genitive",
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      ]
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      "form": "-ic",
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        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "-ici",
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        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "-icím",
      "source": "declension",
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        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "-ici",
      "source": "declension",
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        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "-ice",
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        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ici",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-icích",
      "source": "declension",
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        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-icí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "-icemi",
      "source": "declension",
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        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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        "suffix indicating that the word is of the feminine gender"
      ],
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        [
          "feminine",
          "feminine#English"
        ],
        [
          "gender",
          "gender#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "feminine",
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "[ ɪt͡sɛ]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪtsɛ"
    }
  ],
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}

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  ],
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      "word": "avarice"
    },
    {
      "word": "justice"
    },
    {
      "word": "malice"
    },
    {
      "word": "matrician"
    },
    {
      "word": "patrician"
    },
    {
      "word": "patriciate"
    },
    {
      "word": "pederastice"
    },
    {
      "word": "precipice"
    },
    {
      "word": "service"
    },
    {
      "word": "solstice"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "xno",
        "3": "-ice"
      },
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      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "-ice"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French -ice",
      "name": "bor"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "-īcius",
        "4": "",
        "5": "adjective suffix"
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "-īcus",
        "3": "-ius",
        "nocat": "1"
      },
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      "name": "suf"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "-itia",
        "4": "",
        "5": "noun suffix denoting condition"
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      "expansion": "Latin -itia (“noun suffix denoting condition”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Anglo-Norman -ice and Old French -ice, from either (1) Latin -īcius (“adjective suffix”), from -īcus + -ius or (2) Latin -itia (“noun suffix denoting condition”).",
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        "cat3": "",
        "cat4": "",
        "head": "",
        "id": ""
      },
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      "name": "head"
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    }
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        "English lemmas",
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        "Pages with entries"
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      "glosses": [
        "Forms abstract nouns."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(no longer productive) Forms abstract nouns."
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
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}

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    "Pages with entries"
  ],
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      "expansion": "-ice",
      "name": "head"
    }
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  "pos": "suffix",
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    {
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        "Latin 2-syllable words",
        "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
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        "Latin suffix forms",
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        "Pages with 6 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
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        }
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        "vocative masculine singular of -icus"
      ],
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        [
          "-icus",
          "-icus#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "masculine",
        "morpheme",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "[ɪ.kɛ]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[i.t͡ʃe]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-ice"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Pages with 6 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
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      "args": {
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        "2": "suffix",
        "altform": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "-ice",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "suffix",
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    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "-ik"
        }
      ],
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        "Middle English alternative forms",
        "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
        "Pages with 6 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
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        "alternative form of -ik"
      ],
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        [
          "-ik",
          "-ik#Middle_English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "morpheme"
      ]
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  ],
  "word": "-ice"
}

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    "Pages with 6 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Portuguese countable suffixes",
    "Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Portuguese feminine suffixes",
    "Portuguese lemmas",
    "Portuguese noun-forming suffixes",
    "Portuguese suffixes",
    "Portuguese terms derived from Latin",
    "Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese",
    "Portuguese terms inherited from Latin",
    "Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese",
    "Portuguese uncountable suffixes"
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        "2": "roa-opt",
        "3": "-ice"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Galician-Portuguese -ice",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pt",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "-ities",
        "4": "-itiem"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin -itiem",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "-ez"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish -ez",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Galician-Portuguese -ice (also -ece), from Latin -itiem. The /i/ may reflect influence from -iço. Compare Spanish -ez.",
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    {
      "form": "-ices",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ícia",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ície",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "-,+"
      },
      "expansion": "-ice f (noun-forming suffix, usually uncountable, plural -ices)",
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "pt",
  "pos": "suffix",
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    {
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        {
          "text": "imundo (“filthy”) + -ice → imundice (“filth”)",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "burro (“dumb”) + -ice → burrice (“dumbness”)",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "mesmo (“same”) + -ice → mesmice (“sameness”)",
          "type": "example"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "forms nouns, from adjectives or nouns, denoting a quality or state; -ity; -ness"
      ],
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        [
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          "-ity"
        ],
        [
          "-ness",
          "-ness"
        ]
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        {
          "word": "-idade"
        },
        {
          "word": "-eira"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "morpheme",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "gordo (“fat person”) + -ice → gordice (“fat behaviour or act”)",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "forms nouns denoting an act or behaviour that is typical of the suffixed noun"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "-agem"
        },
        {
          "word": "-ismo"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "morpheme",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "-ice"
}

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    "Pages with 6 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/ise",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/ise/2 syllables",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/iθe",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/iθe/2 syllables",
    "Spanish 2-syllable words",
    "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Spanish non-lemma forms",
    "Spanish suffix forms",
    "Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation"
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        "1": "es",
        "2": "suffix form"
      },
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    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
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    {
      "parts": [
        "",
        "i‧ce"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "suffix",
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    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "-izar"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "inflection of -izar:",
        "first/third-person singular present subjunctive"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "-izar",
          "-izar#Spanish"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "form-of",
        "morpheme",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "-izar"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "inflection of -izar:",
        "third-person singular imperative"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "-izar",
          "-izar#Spanish"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "imperative",
        "morpheme",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈiθe/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈi.θe]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈise/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈi.se]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iθe (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ise (Latin America, Philippines)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-ice"
}

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  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
  "msg": "unrecognized head form: noun-forming suffix",
  "path": [
    "-ice"
  ],
  "section": "Czech",
  "subsection": "suffix",
  "title": "-ice",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
  "msg": "unrecognized head form: noun-forming suffix",
  "path": [
    "-ice"
  ],
  "section": "Portuguese",
  "subsection": "suffix",
  "title": "-ice",
  "trace": ""
}

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