See elegiac on Wiktionary
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"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "ro-decl-adj",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "elegiac",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"indefinite",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "elegiacă",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"feminine",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "elegiaci",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"indefinite",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "elegiace",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"feminine",
"indefinite",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "elegiacul",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"feminine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "elegiacii",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "elegiacele",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"feminine",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "elegiace",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"feminine",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "elegiacului",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "elegiacei",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"feminine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "elegiacilor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "elegiacelor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"feminine",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "elegiac m or n (feminine singular elegiacă, masculine plural elegiaci, feminine and neuter plural elegiace)",
"name": "ro-adj"
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"name": "ro-decl-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"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"
],
"glosses": [
"elegiac"
],
"links": [
[
"elegiac",
"elegiac#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"neuter"
]
}
],
"word": "elegiac"
}
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{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'nominative- accusative'",
"path": [
"elegiac"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "elegiac",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'nominative- accusative'",
"path": [
"elegiac"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "elegiac",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'genitive- dative'",
"path": [
"elegiac"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "elegiac",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'genitive- dative'",
"path": [
"elegiac"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "elegiac",
"trace": ""
}
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