See legato on Wiktionary
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"(music) legato"
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
],
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"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
]
}
],
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}
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "staccato"
}
],
"categories": [
"Pages with 8 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Swedish adverbs",
"Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"Swedish lemmas",
"Swedish neuter nouns",
"Swedish nouns"
],
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"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
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},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "legato",
"source": "declension",
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"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "legatot",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "legaton",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "legatona",
"source": "declension",
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"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "legatos",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "legatots",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "legatons",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "legatonas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
}
],
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"2": "nouns",
"3": "",
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"g2": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "legato n",
"name": "head"
},
{
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"1": "n"
},
"expansion": "legato n",
"name": "sv-noun"
}
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{
"args": {},
"name": "sv-infl-noun-n-n"
}
],
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"sv:Music"
],
"glosses": [
"legato (in a connected manner)"
],
"links": [
[
"music",
"music"
],
[
"legato",
"legato#English"
]
],
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"(music) legato (in a connected manner)"
],
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"topics": [
"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
]
},
{
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"sv:Music"
],
"glosses": [
"legato (legato passage)"
],
"links": [
[
"music",
"music"
],
[
"legato",
"legato#English"
]
],
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"(music) legato (legato passage)"
],
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
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"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
]
}
],
"word": "legato"
}
Download raw JSONL data for legato meaning in All languages combined (31.0kB)
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"called_from": "page/1713/20221215",
"msg": "later head without list of senses,template node #, legato/Esperanto",
"path": [
"legato"
],
"section": "Esperanto",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "legato",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
"msg": "unrecognized head form: no derived adverb",
"path": [
"legato"
],
"section": "Polish",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "legato",
"trace": ""
}
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