See minōs on Wiktionary
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"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "minōzens",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"comparative",
"feminine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "minōzā",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"comparative",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "minōzom",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"comparative",
"genitive",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "minōzom",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"comparative",
"feminine",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "minōzom",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"comparative",
"genitive",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "minōzəβos",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"comparative",
"dative",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "minōzəβos",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"comparative",
"dative",
"feminine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "minōzəβos",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"comparative",
"dative",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "minōzəβos",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"comparative",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "minōzəβos",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"comparative",
"feminine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "minōzəβos",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"comparative",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "minōzəβos",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"comparative",
"locative",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "minōzəβos",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"comparative",
"feminine",
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "minōzəβos",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"comparative",
"locative",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "itc-pro",
"2": "adjective"
},
"expansion": "*minōs",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Proto-Italic",
"lang_code": "itc-pro",
"original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/minōs",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"word": "minuō"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages using etymon with no ID",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Pages with etymology trees",
"Pages with etymon",
"Proto-Italic adjectives",
"Proto-Italic entries with etymology trees",
"Proto-Italic entries with etymon",
"Proto-Italic entries with incorrect language header",
"Proto-Italic lemmas",
"Proto-Italic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Proto-Italic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *mey- (little)",
"Proto-Italic terms suffixed with *-jōs"
],
"glosses": [
"less"
],
"links": [
[
"less",
"less"
]
],
"tags": [
"reconstruction"
]
}
],
"word": "minōs"
}
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