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"(anatomy) The back or dorsal region on the surface of an animal.",
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"word": "手背"
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"Theta Capricorni, a star on the back of the Goat."
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"_dis1": "45 45 0 11",
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"sense": "back of an animal",
"word": "背部"
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"english": "(This “vast reef” or “huge ridge” posed a hidden danger; understood more imaginatively, a “monstrous spine” of rock destroyed the ships. Notus was the Greek south wind.)",
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"text": "Trīs Notus abreptās in saxa latentia torquet —\nsaxa vocant Italī mediīs quae in flūctibus ārās —\ndorsum immāne marī summō ….\nThree [ships] were taken away [by] the Southwind, hurled into hidden rocks – rocks the Italians call the Altars, which [are] in the middle of the waves – a vast reef near the surface of the sea."
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"english": "This [new city] was named Alba Longa, from its position, as it lay stretched out along the ridge",
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"ipa": "/ˈdor.sum/",
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"ipa": "/ˈdor.sum/",
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"anatomy",
"medicine",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Geology"
],
"glosses": [
"A ridge on a hill, or on the surface of a planet or moon."
],
"links": [
[
"geology",
"geology"
],
[
"ridge",
"ridge"
],
[
"hill",
"hill"
],
[
"planet",
"planet"
],
[
"moon",
"moon"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(geology) A ridge on a hill, or on the surface of a planet or moon."
],
"topics": [
"geography",
"geology",
"natural-sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Astronomy"
],
"glosses": [
"Theta Capricorni, a star on the back of the Goat."
],
"links": [
[
"astronomy",
"astronomy"
],
[
"Theta Capricorni",
"Theta Capricorni"
],
[
"star",
"star"
],
[
"Goat",
"Goat"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(astronomy) Theta Capricorni, a star on the back of the Goat."
],
"topics": [
"astronomy",
"natural-sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɔː.səm/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɔɹ.səm/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bèibù",
"sense": "back of an animal",
"word": "背部"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"note": "in anatomy",
"sense": "back of an animal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Dorsum"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "back of an animal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Rücken"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shébèi",
"sense": "back of the tongue",
"word": "舌背"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "back of the tongue",
"topics": [
"anatomy",
"medicine",
"sciences"
],
"word": "Dorsum linguae"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "back of the tongue",
"topics": [
"linguistics",
"human-sciences",
"sciences"
],
"word": "Dorsum"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "back of the tongue",
"word": "Zungenrücken"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "top of the foot or back of the hand",
"word": "腳背"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiǎobèi",
"sense": "top of the foot or back of the hand",
"word": "脚背"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shǒubèi",
"sense": "top of the foot or back of the hand",
"word": "手背"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "ridge on a hill",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Dorsum"
}
],
"word": "dorsum"
}
{
"categories": [
"Latin 2-syllable words",
"Latin adverbs",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin neuter nouns",
"Latin neuter nouns in the second declension",
"Latin nouns",
"Latin second declension nouns",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
"Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Latin uncomparable adverbs",
"la:Landforms"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "dorsuālis"
},
{
"word": "dorsālis"
},
{
"word": "Dorsō"
},
{
"word": "dorsō"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "VL.",
"2": "dossum"
},
"expansion": "Vulgar Latin: dossum",
"name": "desc"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
"name": "see desc"
}
],
"text": "Vulgar Latin: dossum (see there for further descendants)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "dors",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Catalan: dors",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Catalan: dors"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dorsum",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: dorsum",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: dorsum"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "eo",
"2": "dorso",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Esperanto: dorso",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Esperanto: dorso"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "dorso",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Italian: dorso",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Italian: dorso"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "dorso",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Portuguese: dorso",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Portuguese: dorso"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "dorso",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Spanish: dorso",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Spanish: dorso"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "itc-pro",
"3": "*dorsom"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Italic *dorsom",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "deorsum",
"3": "",
"4": "downwards"
},
"expansion": "deorsum (“downwards”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "*dēvorsum"
},
"expansion": "*dēvorsum",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "cel-pro",
"2": "*drosman",
"3": "*dros-man"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Celtic *dros-man",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sga",
"2": "druimm",
"3": "",
"4": "back, ridge"
},
"expansion": "Old Irish druimm (“back, ridge”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Italic *dorsom, with no certain cognates in any other Indo-European languages. Has been linked to deorsum (“downwards”) < *dēvorsum, but their contemporaneous use suggests that one was not a phonetic development of the other. A potential connection with a Proto-Celtic *dros-man, giving Old Irish druimm (“back, ridge”), is unclear.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "dorsī",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "dorsum",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "dorsa",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "dorsī",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "dorsōrum",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "dorsō",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "dorsīs",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "dorsum",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "dorsa",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "dorsō",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "dorsīs",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "dorsum",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "dorsa",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "dorsum<2>"
},
"expansion": "dorsum n (genitive dorsī); second declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "dorsum<2>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"la:Anatomy"
],
"glosses": [
"the back (part of the body between the neck and buttocks)"
],
"links": [
[
"anatomy",
"anatomy"
],
[
"back",
"back"
],
[
"neck",
"neck#English"
],
[
"buttocks",
"buttocks#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(anatomy) the back (part of the body between the neck and buttocks)"
],
"tags": [
"declension-2",
"neuter"
],
"topics": [
"anatomy",
"medicine",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Latin terms with transferred senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "(This “vast reef” or “huge ridge” posed a hidden danger; understood more imaginatively, a “monstrous spine” of rock destroyed the ships. Notus was the Greek south wind.)",
"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.108–110",
"text": "Trīs Notus abreptās in saxa latentia torquet —\nsaxa vocant Italī mediīs quae in flūctibus ārās —\ndorsum immāne marī summō ….\nThree [ships] were taken away [by] the Southwind, hurled into hidden rocks – rocks the Italians call the Altars, which [are] in the middle of the waves – a vast reef near the surface of the sea."
},
{
"english": "This [new city] was named Alba Longa, from its position, as it lay stretched out along the ridge",
"ref": "27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.3",
"text": "Quae ab situ porrectae in dorso urbis Longa Alba appellata"
}
],
"glosses": [
"the ridge, summit of a hill, a reef in the sea; any elevation"
],
"links": [
[
"ridge",
"ridge"
],
[
"summit",
"summit"
],
[
"hill",
"hill"
],
[
"reef",
"reef"
],
[
"sea",
"sea"
],
[
"elevation",
"elevation"
]
],
"qualifier": "transferred sense",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transferred sense) the ridge, summit of a hill, a reef in the sea; any elevation"
],
"tags": [
"declension-2",
"neuter"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈdor.sum/",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈd̪ɔrs̠ʊ̃ˑ]",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdor.sum/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈd̪ɔrsum]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "dorsus"
},
{
"english": "late",
"tags": [
"proscribed"
],
"word": "dossum"
}
],
"word": "dorsum"
}
{
"categories": [
"Latin 2-syllable words",
"Latin adverbs",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Latin uncomparable adverbs"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "dorsum",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "dorsum (not comparable)",
"name": "la-adv"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "down",
"word": "deorsum"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of deorsum (“down”)"
],
"links": [
[
"deorsum",
"deorsum#Latin"
]
],
"senseid": [
"la:down"
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈdor.sum/",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈd̪ɔrs̠ʊ̃ˑ]",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdor.sum/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈd̪ɔrsum]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "dorsum"
}
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