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"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin masculine nouns",
"Latin masculine nouns in the third declension",
"Latin nouns",
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"5": "nail"
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"name": "der"
}
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"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
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"table-tags"
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},
{
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"nominative",
"singular"
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{
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"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "onychum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "onychī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "onychibus",
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"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
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{
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"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "onychēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "onychibus",
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"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
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},
{
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"plural",
"vocative"
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}
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"g": "m"
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"pos": "noun",
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{
"glosses": [
"onyx, yellow marble"
],
"links": [
[
"onyx",
"#English"
],
[
"yellow",
"yellow"
],
[
"marble",
"marble"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A yellowish precious stone"
],
"links": [
[
"yellowish",
"yellowish"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"The female of a mussel of the scallop species"
],
"links": [
[
"mussel",
"mussel"
],
[
"scallop",
"scallop"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"masculine"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈo.nyks/",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈɔnʏks̠]",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈo.niks/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈɔːniks]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
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}
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{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "nouns",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
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"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
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}
],
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"pos": "noun",
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{
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{
"word": "oniche"
}
],
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"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English nouns",
"Middle English uncountable nouns"
],
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"Alternative form of oniche"
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[
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]
],
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"alt-of",
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{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "onyx m (invariable)",
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],
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"lang_code": "pt",
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{
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"Portuguese countable nouns",
"Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
"Portuguese indeclinable nouns",
"Portuguese lemmas",
"Portuguese masculine nouns",
"Portuguese nouns",
"Portuguese terms spelled with Y"
],
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"Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of ónix."
],
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[
"ónix",
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"invariable",
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],
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