See limulus on Wiktionary
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]
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "līmula",
"links": [
[
"līmula",
"limula#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "līmulum",
"links": [
[
"līmulum",
"limulum#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "līmulī",
"links": [
[
"līmulī",
"limuli#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "līmulae",
"links": [
[
"līmulae",
"limulae#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "līmula",
"links": [
[
"līmula",
"limula#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "līmulus"
},
"expansion": "līmulus (feminine līmula, neuter līmulum); first/second-declension adjective",
"name": "la-adj"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "līmulus"
},
"name": "la-adecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"word": "līmus"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin diminutive adjectives",
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Requests for translations of Latin quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 5.2.12",
"text": "Viden limulis, obsecro, ut intuentur?",
"translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "Terentianus Maurus, De litteris, de syllabis, de metris 284",
"text": "haec prius, Bassine fili et tu gener Novate mi, / perpolite, quam potestis, crebriore limula.",
"translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"extra": "askance, oblique",
"word": "līmus"
}
],
"glosses": [
"diminutive of līmus (“askance, oblique”)"
],
"links": [
[
"līmus",
"limus#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"adjective",
"declension-1",
"declension-2",
"diminutive",
"form-of"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"squinting, squint-eyed"
],
"links": [
[
"squinting",
"squinting"
],
[
"squint-eyed",
"squint-eyed"
]
],
"tags": [
"adjective",
"declension-1",
"declension-2"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈliː.mʊ.ɫʊs]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈliː.mu.lus]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "limulus"
}
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