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Adjective [Latin]

IPA: /me.reˈtriː.ki.us/ [Classical-Latin], [mɛrɛˈt̪riːkiʊs] [Classical-Latin], /me.reˈtri.t͡ʃi.us/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [mereˈt̪riːt͡ʃius] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From meretrīx (“female earner, prostitute”) + -ius (“-ious: forming adjectives”). Etymology templates: {{af|la|meretrīx|-ius|t1=female earner, prostitute|t2=-ious: forming adjectives}} meretrīx (“female earner, prostitute”) + -ius (“-ious: forming adjectives”) Head templates: {{la-adj|meretrīcius}} meretrīcius (feminine meretrīcia, neuter meretrīcium); first/second-declension adjective Inflection templates: {{la-adecl|meretrīcius}} Forms: meretrīcius [canonical], meretrīcia [feminine], meretrīcium [neuter], no-table-tags [table-tags], meretrīcius [masculine, nominative, singular], meretrīcia [feminine, nominative, singular], meretrīcium [neuter, nominative, singular], meretrīciī [masculine, nominative, singular], meretrīciae [feminine, nominative, plural], meretrīcia [neuter, nominative, plural], meretrīciī [genitive, masculine, singular], meretrīciae [feminine, genitive, singular], meretrīciī [genitive, neuter, singular], meretrīciōrum [genitive, masculine, singular], meretrīciārum [feminine, genitive, plural], meretrīciōrum [genitive, neuter, plural], meretrīciō [dative, masculine, singular], meretrīciae [dative, feminine, singular], meretrīciō [dative, neuter, singular], meretrīciīs [dative, feminine, masculine, neuter], meretrīcium [accusative, masculine, singular], meretrīciam [accusative, feminine, singular], meretrīcium [accusative, neuter, singular], meretrīciōs [accusative, masculine, singular], meretrīciās [accusative, feminine, plural], meretrīcia [accusative, neuter, plural], meretrīciō [ablative, masculine, singular], meretrīciā [ablative, feminine, singular], meretrīciō [ablative, neuter, singular], meretrīciīs [ablative, feminine, masculine, neuter], meretrīcie [masculine, singular, vocative], meretrīcia [feminine, singular, vocative], meretrīcium [neuter, singular, vocative], meretrīciī [masculine, singular, vocative], meretrīciae [feminine, plural, vocative], meretrīcia [neuter, plural, vocative]
  1. meretricious: Of or related to prostitutes and prostitution. Tags: adjective, declension-1, declension-2
    Sense id: en-meretricius-la-adj-c8vLQn~x Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin terms suffixed with -ius, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Related terms: merenda, merendārius, merendō, merēns, mereō, meretrīcābilis, meretrīciē, meretrīcor, meretrīcula, meretrīx, meritō, meritōrium, meritōrius, meritum, meritus
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          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
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            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Catalan: meretrici",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Catalan: meretrici"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
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          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "meretricious",
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          "expansion": "→ English: meretricious",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: meretricious"
    },
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      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "meretricio",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Italian: meretricio",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Italian: meretricio"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "meretrício",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Portuguese: meretrício",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Portuguese: meretrício"
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          "args": {
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            "bor": "1"
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        "singular"
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        "singular"
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        "singular"
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      "source": "declension",
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        "genitive",
        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "meretrīciī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīciōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "meretrīciārum",
      "source": "declension",
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        "plural"
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      "source": "declension",
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        "masculine",
        "singular"
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        "dative",
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        "singular"
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      "source": "declension",
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        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
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        "dative",
        "feminine",
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        "neuter"
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        "masculine",
        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "meretrīciam",
      "source": "declension",
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        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīcium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
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      "source": "declension",
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        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
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      "source": "declension",
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      "source": "declension",
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        "singular"
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      "source": "declension",
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        "feminine",
        "singular"
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
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      "source": "declension",
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        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "meretrīcia",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "meretrīcium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīciī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīciae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "la-adj"
    }
  ],
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    }
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  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin terms suffixed with -ius",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The first [statue] displays Venus... Received into Heaven, she presided over all things related to Whoring...",
          "roman": "Prima Venerem repraesentat... In Caelum recepta rei Meretriciae praesedit...",
          "text": "1719, William Musgrave, Antiquitates Britanno-Belgicae..., Vol. I, Cap. XII, § I",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "meretricious: Of or related to prostitutes and prostitution."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "meretricious",
          "meretricious"
        ],
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          "related"
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          "prostitute",
          "prostitute"
        ],
        [
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          "prostitution"
        ]
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "merenda"
        },
        {
          "word": "merendārius"
        },
        {
          "word": "merendō"
        },
        {
          "word": "merēns"
        },
        {
          "word": "mereō"
        },
        {
          "word": "meretrīcābilis"
        },
        {
          "word": "meretrīciē"
        },
        {
          "word": "meretrīcor"
        },
        {
          "word": "meretrīcula"
        },
        {
          "word": "meretrīx"
        },
        {
          "word": "meritō"
        },
        {
          "word": "meritōrium"
        },
        {
          "word": "meritōrius"
        },
        {
          "word": "meritum"
        },
        {
          "word": "meritus"
        }
      ],
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        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/me.reˈtriː.ki.us/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mɛrɛˈt̪riːkiʊs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/me.reˈtri.t͡ʃi.us/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mereˈt̪riːt͡ʃius]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "meretricius"
}
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            "1": "ca",
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          "expansion": "→ Catalan: meretrici",
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          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "meretricious",
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      "text": "→ English: meretricious"
    },
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          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "meretricio",
            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ Italian: meretricio",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Italian: meretricio"
    },
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          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "meretrício",
            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ Portuguese: meretrício",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Portuguese: meretrício"
    },
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            "1": "es",
            "2": "meretricio",
            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ Spanish: meretricio",
          "name": "desc"
        }
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      "text": "→ Spanish: meretricio"
    }
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
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      "form": "meretrīcium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
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        "singular"
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        "plural"
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        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "meretrīciae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīciī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīciōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "meretrīciārum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
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    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīciōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīciō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīciae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīciō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīciīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīcium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīciam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīcium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīciōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīciās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīcia",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīciō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīciā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīciō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīciīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīcie",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīcia",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīcium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīciī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīciae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meretrīcia",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "meretrīcius"
      },
      "expansion": "meretrīcius (feminine meretrīcia, neuter meretrīcium); first/second-declension adjective",
      "name": "la-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "meretrīcius"
      },
      "name": "la-adecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "merenda"
    },
    {
      "word": "merendārius"
    },
    {
      "word": "merendō"
    },
    {
      "word": "merēns"
    },
    {
      "word": "mereō"
    },
    {
      "word": "meretrīcābilis"
    },
    {
      "word": "meretrīciē"
    },
    {
      "word": "meretrīcor"
    },
    {
      "word": "meretrīcula"
    },
    {
      "word": "meretrīx"
    },
    {
      "word": "meritō"
    },
    {
      "word": "meritōrium"
    },
    {
      "word": "meritōrius"
    },
    {
      "word": "meritum"
    },
    {
      "word": "meritus"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin 5-syllable words",
        "Latin adjectives",
        "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Latin first and second declension adjectives",
        "Latin lemmas",
        "Latin terms suffixed with -ius",
        "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Latin terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The first [statue] displays Venus... Received into Heaven, she presided over all things related to Whoring...",
          "roman": "Prima Venerem repraesentat... In Caelum recepta rei Meretriciae praesedit...",
          "text": "1719, William Musgrave, Antiquitates Britanno-Belgicae..., Vol. I, Cap. XII, § I",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "meretricious: Of or related to prostitutes and prostitution."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "meretricious",
          "meretricious"
        ],
        [
          "related",
          "related"
        ],
        [
          "prostitute",
          "prostitute"
        ],
        [
          "prostitution",
          "prostitution"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/me.reˈtriː.ki.us/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mɛrɛˈt̪riːkiʊs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/me.reˈtri.t͡ʃi.us/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mereˈt̪riːt͡ʃius]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "meretricius"
}

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