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},
{
"form": "Maecēnātibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Maecēnās",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "Maecēnātēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Maecēnās<3.both>",
"g": "m"
},
"expansion": "Maecēnās m (genitive Maecēnātis); third declension",
"name": "la-proper noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Maecēnās<3.both>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A Roman cognomen — famously held by:",
"A Roman cognomen — famously held by"
],
"links": [
[
"cognomen",
"cognomen#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"A Roman cognomen — famously held by:"
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A Roman cognomen — famously held by:",
"Gaius Cilnius Maecenas, a Roman patron"
],
"links": [
[
"cognomen",
"cognomen#English"
],
[
"patron",
"patron"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Maecenas (any person who is a generous benefactor, particularly of the arts)"
],
"links": [
[
"Maecenas",
"Maecenas#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension) Maecenas (any person who is a generous benefactor, particularly of the arts)"
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"declension-3"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mae̯ˈkeː.naːs/",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[mäe̯ˈkeːnäːs̠]",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/meˈt͡ʃe.nas/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[meˈt͡ʃɛːnäs]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "Maecenas"
}
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