See dialectic on Wiktionary
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{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Romanian adjectives",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian terms borrowed from French",
"Romanian terms derived from French",
"Romanian terms derived from Latin"
],
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"dialectical"
],
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"dialectical",
"dialectical"
]
],
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"masculine",
"neuter"
]
}
],
"word": "dialectic"
}
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