See initiator on Wiktionary
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "iniciátor",
"sense": "one who initiates",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "инициа́тор"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "osnovopolóžnik",
"sense": "one who initiates",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "основополо́жник"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "chemistry: substance that initiates a chain reaction or polymerization",
"word": "käynnistäjä"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "chemistry: substance that initiates a chain reaction or polymerization",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Initiator"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "military: component of a nuclear weapon",
"word": "laukaisin"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "medicine: material whose presence in the body eventually leads to cancer",
"word": "käynnistäjä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "medicine: material whose presence in the body eventually leads to cancer",
"word": "initiaattori"
}
],
"word": "initiator"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "initiātor",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "verb form",
"head": "initiātor"
},
"expansion": "initiātor",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin non-lemma forms",
"Latin verb forms",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "initiō"
}
],
"glosses": [
"second/third-person singular future passive imperative of initiō"
],
"links": [
[
"initiō",
"initio#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"future",
"imperative",
"passive",
"second-person",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"word": "initiator"
}
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