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"qualifier": "originally",
"raw_glosses": [
"(originally) a charm, spell, witchcraft"
],
"tags": [
"declension-2",
"neuter"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"a phallus-shaped amulet worn around the neck as a preventive against witchcraft",
"a penis, phallus, especially that of a human"
],
"links": [
[
"phallus",
"phallus"
],
[
"amulet",
"amulet"
],
[
"preventive",
"preventive"
],
[
"witchcraft",
"witchcraft"
],
[
"penis",
"penis"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension) a phallus-shaped amulet worn around the neck as a preventive against witchcraft",
"a penis, phallus, especially that of a human"
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"declension-2",
"neuter"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Then Oenothea takes out a leather dildo and, having covered it in oil, pepper and ground nettle seeds […]",
"ref": "c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 138",
"text": "Prōfert Oenothea scorteum fascinum, quod ut oleō et minūtō pipere atque ū̆rtīcae trītō circumdedit sēmine […]"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a phallus-shaped amulet worn around the neck as a preventive against witchcraft",
"an artificial phallus, dildo"
],
"links": [
[
"phallus",
"phallus"
],
[
"amulet",
"amulet"
],
[
"preventive",
"preventive"
],
[
"witchcraft",
"witchcraft"
],
[
"dildo",
"dildo"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension) a phallus-shaped amulet worn around the neck as a preventive against witchcraft",
"an artificial phallus, dildo"
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"declension-2",
"neuter"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"a phallus-shaped amulet worn around the neck as a preventive against witchcraft",
"a kind of seashell"
],
"links": [
[
"phallus",
"phallus"
],
[
"amulet",
"amulet"
],
[
"preventive",
"preventive"
],
[
"witchcraft",
"witchcraft"
],
[
"seashell",
"seashell"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension) a phallus-shaped amulet worn around the neck as a preventive against witchcraft",
"a kind of seashell"
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"declension-2",
"neuter"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈfas.ki.num/",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈfäs̠kɪnʊ̃ˑ]",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈfaʃ.ʃi.num/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈfäʃːinum]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "fascinus"
}
],
"word": "fascinum"
}
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