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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "क्वाथ"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "an extraction or essence",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prevretek"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "an extraction or essence",
"word": "avkok"
},
{
"code": "txb",
"lang": "Tocharian B",
"sense": "an extraction or essence",
"word": "kaṣāy"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"decoction"
],
"word": "decoction"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "decoction oblique singular or",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "decoctions",
"tags": [
"oblique",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "decoction",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "decoctions",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "f"
},
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"name": "fro-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Old French",
"lang_code": "fro",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "decoccion"
}
],
"categories": [
"Old French entries with incorrect language header",
"Old French feminine nouns",
"Old French lemmas",
"Old French nouns",
"Old French terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "[take] 9 teaspoonfuls of the aforementioned decoction",
"ref": "1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine)",
"text": "IX cuillieres de la dicte decoction",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of decoccion"
],
"links": [
[
"decoccion",
"decoccion#Old French"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "decoction"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
"msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Old French: 'decoction oblique singular or', originally 'decoction oblique singular or f'",
"path": [
"decoction"
],
"section": "Old French",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "decoction",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
"msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Old French: 'decoction oblique singular or', originally 'decoction oblique singular or f'",
"path": [
"decoction"
],
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"subsection": "noun",
"title": "decoction",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1147",
"msg": "suspicious related form tags ['feminine', 'canonical']: 'decoction oblique singular or' in 'decoction oblique singular, f (oblique plural decoctions, nominative singular decoction, nominative plural decoctions)'",
"path": [
"decoction"
],
"section": "Old French",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "decoction",
"trace": ""
}
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