See -ior on Wiktionary
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"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "esculentus → esculentior"
},
{
"text": "pūtidus → pūtidior"
},
{
"text": "ulter → ulterior (not *ultrior)"
}
],
"glosses": [
"forms adjectives’ comparative degrees"
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"morpheme"
],
"wikipedia": [
"History of Latin"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[i.ɔr]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[i.or]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "-ior"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "suffix",
"var": "1"
},
"expansion": "-ior",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "suffix",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "-iere"
}
],
"categories": [
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English variant lemmas",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"alternative form of -iere"
],
"links": [
[
"-iere",
"-iere#Middle_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "-ior"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "",
"2": "i",
"3": "I"
},
"expansion": "I",
"name": "yesno"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "Inherited"
},
"expansion": "Inherited",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "la",
"3": "-olus",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
"expansion": "Latin -olus",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "la",
"3": "-olus"
},
"expansion": "Inherited from Latin -olus",
"name": "inh+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Inherited from Latin -olus.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "-iori",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-ioară",
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "-ioare",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "suffix",
"3": "plural",
"4": "-iori",
"5": "feminine",
"6": "-ioară",
"7": "feminine plural",
"8": "-ioare",
"cat2": "diminutive suffixes",
"g": "m"
},
"expansion": "-ior m (plural -iori, feminine -ioară, feminine plural -ioare)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "suffix",
"related": [
{
"word": "-șor"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Romanian diminutive suffixes",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian masculine suffixes",
"Romanian suffixes",
"Romanian terms derived from Latin",
"Romanian terms inherited from Latin"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "frate (“brother”) + -ior → frățior",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "mia (“ewe”) + -ior → mioară",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Forms diminutives of nouns."
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "-ior"
}
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