See fermentum on Wiktionary
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{
"args": {
"1": "fermentum<2>"
},
"expansion": "fermentum n (genitive fermentī); second declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fermentum<2>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"the process of fermentation or leavening"
],
"links": [
[
"fermentation",
"fermentation"
],
[
"leavening",
"leavening"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-2",
"neuter"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"yeast, ferment, leaven (a substance used for fermentation)"
],
"links": [
[
"yeast",
"yeast"
],
[
"ferment",
"ferment"
],
[
"leaven",
"leaven"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-2",
"neuter"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "my wife’s in an awful stew because of that girl",
"ref": "c. 206 BCE – 188 BCE, Plautus, Mercator 959",
"roman": "Translation by Wolfgang de Melo",
"text": "nam mea uxor propter illam tōta in fermentō iacēt",
"translation": "my wife’s in an awful stew because of that girl",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"passion"
],
"links": [
[
"passion",
"passion"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figurative) passion"
],
"tags": [
"declension-2",
"figuratively",
"neuter"
]
}
],
"word": "fermentum"
}
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