See glomus on Wiktionary
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"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "glomeris",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "glomerum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "glomerī",
"links": [
[
"glomerī",
"glomeri#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "glomeribus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "glomus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "glomera",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "glomere",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "glomeribus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "glomus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "glomera",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "glomus/glomer<3>"
},
"expansion": "glomus n (genitive glomeris); third declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "glomus/glomer<3>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "globus"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"ball-shaped mass"
],
"links": [
[
"ball",
"ball"
],
[
"mass",
"mass"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"neuter"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"ball of thread, yarn"
],
"links": [
[
"ball",
"ball"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"neuter"
]
}
],
"word": "glomus"
}
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