See speculator on Wiktionary
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"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "speculator m (uncountable)",
"name": "ro-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"gpd": "speculatorilor",
"gpi": "speculatori",
"gsd": "speculatorului",
"gsi": "speculator",
"n": "sg",
"npd": "speculatorii",
"npi": "speculatori",
"nsd": "speculatorul",
"nsi": "speculator",
"vp": "speculatorilor",
"vs": "speculatorule",
"vs2": ""
},
"name": "ro-decl-noun-single"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian masculine nouns",
"Romanian nouns",
"Romanian terms borrowed from French",
"Romanian terms derived from French",
"Romanian terms suffixed with -tor",
"Romanian uncountable nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"speculator"
],
"links": [
[
"speculator",
"speculator#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"word": "speculator"
}
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