See licit on Wiktionary
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"expansion": "licit m or n (feminine singular licită, masculine plural liciți, feminine and neuter plural licite)",
"name": "ro-adj"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "ro-decl-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Romanian adjectives",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian terms borrowed from French",
"Romanian terms derived from French",
"Romanian terms derived from Latin"
],
"glosses": [
"lawful"
],
"links": [
[
"lawful",
"lawful"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"neuter"
]
}
],
"word": "licit"
}
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