See -fag on Wiktionary
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"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "suffix",
"g": "m"
},
"expansion": "-fag m",
"name": "head"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"[please"
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "pl-decl-noun-m-anml"
}
],
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"pos": "suffix",
"related": [
{
"word": "-fagia"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages using catfix",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Polish 1-syllable words",
"Polish entries with Template:pl-pr without syllabification",
"Polish entries with incorrect language header",
"Polish learned borrowings from Ancient Greek",
"Polish lemmas",
"Polish links with manual fragments",
"Polish links with redundant alt parameters",
"Polish links with redundant wikilinks",
"Polish masculine suffixes",
"Polish suffixes",
"Polish terms borrowed from Ancient Greek",
"Polish terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"Polish terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Polish terms with audio pronunciation",
"Polish terms with homophones",
"Rhymes:Polish/ak",
"Rhymes:Polish/ak/1 syllable"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "bakteria + -fag → bakteriofag",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"-phage"
],
"links": [
[
"-phage",
"-phage#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/fak/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ak"
},
{
"homophone": "fag"
}
],
"word": "-fag"
}
Download raw JSONL data for -fag meaning in All languages combined (8.8kB)
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
"msg": "unrecognized head form: noun-forming suffix",
"path": [
"-fag"
],
"section": "Catalan",
"subsection": "suffix",
"title": "-fag",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
"msg": "unrecognized head form: adjective-forming suffix",
"path": [
"-fag"
],
"section": "Catalan",
"subsection": "suffix",
"title": "-fag",
"trace": ""
}
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