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"form": "Niobē",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Niobē",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Niobē<1>"
},
"expansion": "Niobē f sg (genitive Niobēs); first declension",
"name": "la-proper noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Niobē<1>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "name",
"related": [
{
"word": "Niobēus"
},
{
"word": "Niobīdēs"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin 3-syllable words",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin feminine nouns",
"Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
"Latin first declension nouns",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin proper nouns",
"Latin terms borrowed from Ancient Greek",
"Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"la:Greek mythology"
],
"glosses": [
"Niobe"
],
"links": [
[
"Greek",
"Greek"
],
[
"mythology",
"mythology"
],
[
"Niobe",
"#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Greek mythology) Niobe"
],
"tags": [
"Greek",
"declension-1"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"mysticism",
"mythology",
"philosophy",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈni.o.beː/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈniɔbeː]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈni.o.be/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈniːobe]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "Niobe"
}
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