See -fer on Wiktionary
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"bearing",
"bearing"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"declension-2",
"morpheme",
"suffix"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/fer/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[fɛr]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/fer/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[fer]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "-fer"
}
Download raw JSONL data for -fer meaning in All languages combined (7.3kB)
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
"msg": "unrecognized head form: adjective-forming suffix",
"path": [
"-fer"
],
"section": "Catalan",
"subsection": "suffix",
"title": "-fer",
"trace": ""
}
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