See pecunia on Wiktionary
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[
"ready money",
"ready money"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) cash, ready money, liquid wealth"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[pɛˈkuː.ni.a]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[peˈkuː.ni.a]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "pecunia"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "la",
"3": "pecūnia"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Latin pecūnia",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin pecūnia, the expected inherited result would be *peguña.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "pecunias",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f"
},
"expansion": "pecunia f (plural pecunias)",
"name": "es-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"pe‧cu‧nia"
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"pe‧cu‧nia"
]
}
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Spanish/unja",
"Rhymes:Spanish/unja/3 syllables",
"Spanish 3-syllable words",
"Spanish colloquialisms",
"Spanish countable nouns",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish feminine nouns",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish nouns",
"Spanish terms borrowed from Latin",
"Spanish terms derived from Latin",
"Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
"glosses": [
"dosh; spondulicks; cash"
],
"links": [
[
"dosh",
"dosh"
],
[
"spondulicks",
"spondulicks"
],
[
"cash",
"cash"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial) dosh; spondulicks; cash"
],
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"feminine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/peˈkunja/"
},
{
"ipa": "[peˈku.nja]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-unja"
}
],
"word": "pecunia"
}
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