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"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Ancient Greek Εἵλωτες (Heílōtes).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "sv-infl-noun-c-er",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "helot",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "heloten",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "heloter",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "heloterna",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "helots",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "helotens",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "heloters",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "heloternas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "nouns",
"3": "",
"g": "c",
"g2": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "helot c",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "c"
},
"expansion": "helot c",
"name": "sv-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "sv-infl-noun-c-er"
}
],
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "spartiat"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Swedish common-gender nouns",
"Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"Swedish entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Swedish lemmas",
"Swedish nouns",
"Swedish terms borrowed from Ancient Greek",
"Swedish terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"sv:Ancient Greece"
],
"glosses": [
"helot"
],
"links": [
[
"helot",
"helot#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"common-gender"
]
}
],
"word": "helot"
}
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