See homunculus on Wiktionary
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]
},
{
"form": "homunculuși",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "homunculușii",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "homunculus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "homunculusului",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "homunculuși",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "homunculușilor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "homunculusule",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "homunculușilor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"2": "homunculuși"
},
"expansion": "homunculus m (plural homunculuși)",
"name": "ro-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"g": "m",
"gpd": "homunculușilor",
"gpi": "homunculuși",
"gsd": "homunculusului",
"gsi": "homunculus",
"n": "",
"npd": "homunculușii",
"npi": "homunculuși",
"nsd": "homunculusul",
"nsi": "homunculus",
"vp": "homunculușilor",
"vs": "homunculusule",
"vs2": ""
},
"name": "ro-decl-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Romanian countable nouns",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian masculine nouns",
"Romanian nouns",
"Romanian nouns with red links in their headword lines",
"Romanian terms borrowed from Latin",
"Romanian terms derived from Latin"
],
"glosses": [
"homunculus"
],
"links": [
[
"homunculus",
"homunculus#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "homunculus"
}
Download raw JSONL data for homunculus meaning in All languages combined (14.0kB)
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'genitive-dative'",
"path": [
"homunculus"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "homunculus",
"trace": ""
}
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