"alec" meaning in All languages combined

See alec on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: alecs [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin alec (“herring”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|alec||herring}} Latin alec (“herring”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} alec (countable and uncountable, plural alecs)
  1. An anchovy or herring, especially pickled or dried. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-alec-en-noun-0cryd7UN
  2. A sauce made from alecs; alec sauce. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Sauces
    Sense id: en-alec-en-noun-l5WdKAly Disambiguation of Sauces: 5 95 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 93 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 12 88 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 8 92
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: alec sauce, alecy Related terms: smart alec, smart aleck

Noun [Latin]

Head templates: {{la-noun|ālēc<3.N>}} ālēc n (genitive ālēcis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|ālēc<3.N>}} Forms: ālēc [canonical, neuter], ālēcis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], ālēc [nominative, singular], ālēca [nominative, plural], ālēcis [genitive, singular], ālēcum [genitive, plural], ālēcī [dative, singular], ālēcibus [dative, plural], ālēc [accusative, singular], ālēca [accusative, plural], ālēce [ablative, singular], ālēcibus [ablative, plural], ālēc [singular, vocative], ālēca [plural, vocative]
  1. Alternative spelling of allēc Tags: alt-of, alternative, declension-3 Alternative form of: allēc

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "alec sauce"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "alecy"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "alec",
        "4": "",
        "5": "herring"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin alec (“herring”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin alec (“herring”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "alecs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "alec (countable and uncountable, plural alecs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "smart alec"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "smart aleck"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "An anchovy or herring, especially pickled or dried."
      ],
      "id": "en-alec-en-noun-0cryd7UN",
      "links": [
        [
          "anchovy",
          "anchovy"
        ],
        [
          "herring",
          "herring"
        ],
        [
          "pickled",
          "pickled"
        ],
        [
          "dried",
          "dried"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "7 93",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "12 88",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 92",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "5 95",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sauces",
          "orig": "en:Sauces",
          "parents": [
            "Foods",
            "Eating",
            "Food and drink",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sauce made from alecs; alec sauce."
      ],
      "id": "en-alec-en-noun-l5WdKAly",
      "links": [
        [
          "sauce",
          "sauce"
        ],
        [
          "alec sauce",
          "alec sauce"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "alec"
  ],
  "word": "alec"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ālēc",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēcis",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēc",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēca",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēcis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēcum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēcī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēcibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēc",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēca",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēce",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēcibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēc",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēca",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ālēc<3.N>"
      },
      "expansion": "ālēc n (genitive ālēcis); third declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ālēc<3.N>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "allēc"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin neuter nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of allēc"
      ],
      "id": "en-alec-la-noun-hNESmaKj",
      "links": [
        [
          "allēc",
          "allec#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "declension-3"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "alec"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Sauces"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "alec sauce"
    },
    {
      "word": "alecy"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "alec",
        "4": "",
        "5": "herring"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin alec (“herring”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin alec (“herring”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "alecs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "smart alec"
    },
    {
      "word": "smart aleck"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "An anchovy or herring, especially pickled or dried."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "anchovy",
          "anchovy"
        ],
        [
          "herring",
          "herring"
        ],
        [
          "pickled",
          "pickled"
        ],
        [
          "dried",
          "dried"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A sauce made from alecs; alec sauce."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sauce",
          "sauce"
        ],
        [
          "alec sauce",
          "alec sauce"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "alec"
  ],
  "word": "alec"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ālēc",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēcis",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēc",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēca",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēcis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēcum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēcī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēcibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēc",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēca",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēce",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēcibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēc",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ālēca",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ālēc<3.N>"
      },
      "expansion": "ālēc n (genitive ālēcis); third declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ālēc<3.N>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "allēc"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Latin lemmas",
        "Latin neuter nouns",
        "Latin neuter nouns in the third declension",
        "Latin nouns",
        "Latin nouns with red links in their inflection tables",
        "Latin third declension nouns",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of allēc"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "allēc",
          "allec#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "declension-3"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "alec"
}

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