See Lemuria on Wiktionary
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"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Lemūribus",
"links": [
[
"Lemūribus",
"Lemuribus#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Lemūria",
"links": [
[
"Lemūria",
"Lemuria#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "((Lemūria<2>,Lemūria<3.pl>))"
},
"expansion": "Lemūria n pl (genitive Lemūriōrum or Lemūrium); variously declined, second declension, third declension",
"name": "la-proper noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "((Lemūria<2>,Lemūria<3.pl>))"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin 4-syllable words",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin neuter nouns",
"Latin neuter nouns in the second declension",
"Latin neuter nouns in the third declension",
"Latin nouns with multiple declensions",
"Latin pluralia tantum",
"Latin proper nouns",
"Latin second declension nouns",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Latin third declension nouns",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"la:Holidays"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 5.421",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"the festival of Lemurēs (spirits, ghosts)"
],
"links": [
[
"festival",
"festival"
],
[
"Lemurēs",
"lemures#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-2",
"declension-3"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ɫɛˈmuː.ri.a]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[leˈmuː.ri.a]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "Lemuria"
}
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