See Melanesia on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2004, Mary N. MacDonald, “Thinking and teaching with the indigenous traditions of Melanesia”, in Beyond primitivism: indigenous religious traditions and modernity, Routledge, →ISBN, page 315:",
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],
"word": "Melànēzija"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "part of Oceania",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Melanézia"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "part of Oceania",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Melanezija"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "part of Oceania",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Melanesia"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "part of Oceania",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Melanesien"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "part of Oceania",
"word": "Timpuluan"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "part of Oceania",
"word": "Melanesya"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "Myelaneziya",
"sense": "part of Oceania",
"word": "Меланезия"
},
{
"code": "tt",
"lang": "Tatar",
"roman": "Melaneziyä",
"sense": "part of Oceania",
"word": "Меланезия"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "mee-laa-nii-siia",
"sense": "part of Oceania",
"word": "เมลานีเซีย"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "part of Oceania",
"word": "Melanezya"
},
{
"code": "tk",
"lang": "Turkmen",
"sense": "part of Oceania",
"word": "Melaneziýa"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "Melanézija",
"sense": "part of Oceania",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Мелане́зія"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "melāniśiyā",
"sense": "part of Oceania",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "میلانیشیا"
},
{
"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
"roman": "mëlanëziye",
"sense": "part of Oceania",
"word": "مېلانېزىيە"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "part of Oceania",
"word": "Melaneziya"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "part of Oceania",
"word": "Mê-la-nê-di"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "part of Oceania",
"word": "Bläga-Seanuäns"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "melanezye",
"sense": "part of Oceania",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "מעלאַנעזיע"
}
],
"word": "Melanesia"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "Melānēsia",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"feminine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Melānēsiae",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "Melānēsia",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Melānēsiae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Melānēsiae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Melānēsiam",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Melānēsiā",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Melānēsia",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "Melānēsiae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"singular"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "Melānēsia<1.loc>"
},
"expansion": "Melānēsia f sg (genitive Melānēsiae); first declension",
"name": "la-proper noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Melānēsia<1.loc>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "name",
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{
"categories": [
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"Latin feminine nouns",
"Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
"Latin first declension nouns",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin proper nouns",
"New Latin",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"la:Regions of Oceania"
],
"glosses": [
"Melanesia (a region of Oceania)"
],
"links": [
[
"Melanesia",
"Melanesia#English"
],
[
"Oceania",
"Oceania#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(New Latin) Melanesia (a region of Oceania)"
],
"tags": [
"New-Latin",
"declension-1"
],
"wikipedia": [
"la:Melanesia"
]
}
],
"word": "Melanesia"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "melanesisk"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "nb",
"2": "grc",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Melanesia"
},
"expansion": "English Melanesia",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek, see English Melanesia.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nb",
"2": "proper noun"
},
"expansion": "Melanesia",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"lang_code": "nb",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header",
"Norwegian Bokmål lemmas",
"Norwegian Bokmål proper nouns",
"Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"nb:Regions of Oceania"
],
"glosses": [
"Melanesia (a region of Oceania)"
],
"links": [
[
"Melanesia",
"Melanesia#English"
],
[
"Oceania",
"Oceania#English"
]
]
}
],
"word": "Melanesia"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "melanesisk"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "grc",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Melanesia"
},
"expansion": "English Melanesia",
"name": "cog"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "proper noun"
},
"expansion": "Melanesia",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"lang_code": "nn",
"pos": "name",
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{
"categories": [
"Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header",
"Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas",
"Norwegian Nynorsk proper nouns",
"Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"nn:Regions of Oceania"
],
"glosses": [
"Melanesia (a region of Oceania)"
],
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[
"Melanesia",
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],
[
"Oceania",
"Oceania#English"
]
]
}
],
"word": "Melanesia"
}
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