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},
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"name": "head"
}
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{
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"inflection of litigare:",
"second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive"
],
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[
"litigare",
"litigare#Italian"
]
],
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"plural",
"present",
"second-person",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
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"second-person plural imperative"
],
"links": [
[
"litigare",
"litigare#Italian"
]
],
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"imperative",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
}
],
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}
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"Italian non-lemma forms",
"Italian past participle forms"
],
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"2": "past participle form",
"g": "f-p"
},
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"name": "head"
}
],
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"lang_code": "it",
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{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "litigato"
}
],
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"feminine plural of litigato"
],
"links": [
[
"litigato",
"litigato#Italian"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"form-of",
"participle",
"plural"
]
}
],
"word": "litigate"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "lītigāte",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "participle form",
"head": "lītigāte"
},
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"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin 4-syllable words",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin non-lemma forms",
"Latin participle forms",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
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{
"word": "lītigātus"
}
],
"glosses": [
"vocative masculine singular of lītigātus"
],
"links": [
[
"lītigātus",
"litigatus#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"masculine",
"participle",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/liː.tiˈɡaː.te/",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[lʲiːt̪ɪˈɡäːt̪ɛ]",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/li.tiˈɡa.te/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[lit̪iˈɡäːt̪e]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
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}
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{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "litigate",
"name": "head"
}
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"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"categories": [
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish non-lemma forms",
"Spanish verb forms"
],
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{
"word": "litigar"
}
],
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"second-person singular voseo imperative of litigar combined with te"
],
"links": [
[
"litigar",
"litigar#Spanish"
],
[
"te",
"te#Spanish"
]
],
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"form-of",
"imperative",
"object-second-person",
"object-singular",
"second-person",
"singular",
"with-voseo"
]
}
],
"word": "litigate"
}
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