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"text": "Occitan: melhor, milhor"
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"text": "Ibero-Romance:"
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"ipa": "/ˈme.li.or/",
"tags": [
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]
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"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈme.li.or/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈmɛːlior]",
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}
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"text": "Padanian:"
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"text": "Occitan: melhor, milhor"
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"text": "Ibero-Romance:"
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"text": "Portuguese: melhor"
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"neuter",
"singular"
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "melius",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "meliōrēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "meliōra",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "melior"
},
"name": "la-adecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"word": "bonus"
},
{
"word": "optimus"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin 3-syllable words",
"Latin comparative adjectives",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin non-lemma forms",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
"Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
"Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Latin terms with redundant head parameter"
],
"form_of": [
{
"extra": "better",
"word": "bonus"
}
],
"glosses": [
"comparative degree of bonus; better"
],
"links": [
[
"bonus",
"bonus#Latin"
],
[
"better",
"better"
]
],
"tags": [
"comparative",
"declension-3",
"form-of"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈme.li.or/",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈmɛlʲiɔr]",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈme.li.or/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈmɛːlior]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "melior"
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/865",
"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: melior/Latin 'Number' base_tags=set()",
"path": [
"melior"
],
"section": "Latin",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "melior",
"trace": ""
}
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