See dexter on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1879, London Mathematical Society, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, page 112:",
"text": "Subtracting the second from the first, the third from the second and the first from the third successively, we obtain, after transposition, the following identities: — [several equations]\nBut, the sinisters being exact differentials, the dexters are so. Consequently [...]",
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{
"ref": "1971, Debala Mitra, Buddhist Monuments:",
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{
"ipa": "/ˈdɛks.tɝ/",
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"US"
]
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "\"right\", e.g. in heraldry",
"word": "oikea"
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{
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "\"right\", e.g. in heraldry",
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{
"word": "dextra"
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{
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{
"word": "dextrāle"
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{
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{
"word": "dextrōversum"
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{
"word": "ambidexter"
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"args": {
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"english": "[Aeneas dreams of Hector, who tells him to flee, not fight:] “‘If Trojan [towers] could have been defended by [any] skillful [hand], [then] certainly by this [hand of mine] they would have been able to be defended.’”",
"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.291–292",
"roman": "dēfendī possent, etiam hāc dēfēnsa fuissent.’”",
"text": "“‘… Sī Pergama dextrā"
}
],
"glosses": [
"skillful"
],
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[
"skillful",
"skillful"
]
],
"tags": [
"adjective",
"declension-1",
"declension-2"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"fortunate, favorable"
],
"links": [
[
"fortunate",
"fortunate"
],
[
"favorable",
"favorable"
]
],
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"adjective",
"declension-1",
"declension-2"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"proper, fitting"
],
"links": [
[
"proper",
"proper"
],
[
"fitting",
"fitting"
]
],
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"adjective",
"declension-1",
"declension-2"
]
}
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{
"ipa": "/ˈdek.ster/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈd̪ɛks̠t̪ɛr]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdek.ster/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈd̪ɛkst̪er]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
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{
"english": "Pompeian inscriptions",
"tags": [
"Late-Latin",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "dester"
}
],
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}
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"2": "la",
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"name": "lbor"
}
],
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"tags": [
"feminine",
"singular"
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{
"form": "dexteri",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"feminine",
"neuter",
"plural"
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},
{
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"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
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{
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"indefinite",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"singular"
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},
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"feminine",
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"plural"
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},
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"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"singular"
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"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"feminine",
"singular"
]
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"source": "declension",
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"error-unrecognized-form",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
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"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"feminine",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"error-unrecognized-form",
"feminine",
"indefinite",
"singular"
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "dexterei",
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"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"feminine",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "dexterelor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"feminine",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
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"name": "ro-adj"
}
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"args": {},
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}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
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"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Romanian adjectives",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian learned borrowings from Latin",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian terms borrowed from Latin",
"Romanian terms derived from Latin"
],
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"dexterous"
],
"links": [
[
"dexterous",
"dexterous"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"neuter"
]
}
],
"word": "dexter"
}
Download raw JSONL data for dexter meaning in All languages combined (24.5kB)
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"dexter"
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"trace": ""
}
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"dexter"
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}
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"trace": ""
}
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