See amplexus on Wiktionary
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"masculine",
"singular"
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"genitive",
"plural"
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"neuter",
"singular"
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"source": "declension",
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"masculine",
"neuter"
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"singular"
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"source": "declension",
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"singular"
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},
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"singular"
]
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"plural"
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"ablative",
"neuter",
"singular"
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},
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"singular",
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{
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"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
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],
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"genitive"
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"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"dative",
"plural"
]
},
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"singular"
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},
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"source": "declension",
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"vocative"
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}
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"english": "It had been the habit of one of your serving-women, [daughter] of Cadmus, often to go under the embraces of your husband.\n(The daughter of Cadmus is Ino (mythology).)",
"ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.553–554",
"roman": "saepe sub amplexūs coniugis īre tuī.",
"text": "ūna ministrārum solita est, Cadmēī, tuārum"
}
],
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"embrace",
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"caress",
"caress"
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"declension-4",
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"masculine"
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"Classical-Latin"
]
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"ipa": "/amˈplek.sus/",
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},
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}
],
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}
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