See forfex on Wiktionary
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}
],
"etymology_text": "According to de Vaan, from Proto-Italic *forðom, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerdʰ- (“to capture, shear”), and cognate with Umbrian [script needed] (furfant, “to do something (probably shearing) to sheep”), Ancient Greek πέρθω (pérthō, “to sack, to ravage”), and πορθέω (porthéō, “to pillage”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "forficis",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "forfex",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "forficēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "forficis",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "forficum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "forficī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "forficibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "forficem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "forficēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "forfice",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "forficibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "forfex",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "forficēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "forfex<3>",
"g1": "f",
"g2": "m"
},
"expansion": "forfex f or m (genitive forficis); third declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "forfex<3>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin 2-syllable words",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin feminine nouns",
"Latin feminine nouns in the third declension",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin masculine nouns",
"Latin masculine nouns in the third declension",
"Latin nouns",
"Latin nouns with multiple genders",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Latin third declension nouns",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Requests for native script for Umbrian terms",
"la:Tools"
],
"glosses": [
"pair of shears or scissors"
],
"links": [
[
"pair",
"pair"
],
[
"shears",
"shears"
],
[
"scissors",
"scissors"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈfor.feks/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈfɔrfɛks̠]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈfor.feks/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈfɔrfeks]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "forfex"
}
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