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Noun [English]

Forms: oscula [plural]
Etymology: From Latin ōsculum (“little mouth”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|ōsculum||little mouth}} Latin ōsculum (“little mouth”) Head templates: {{en-noun|oscula}} osculum (plural oscula)
  1. (chiefly zoology) A small opening or orifice. Categories (topical): Zoology
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  2. (zoology, obsolete) One of the suckers on the head of a tapeworm. Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Zoology
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  3. (zoology) The main opening in a sponge from which water is expelled. Categories (topical): Zoology Translations (main opening in a sponge): hylkyaukko (Finnish), oscule [masculine] (French), Osculum [neuter] (German), óisín [masculine] (Irish), osculo [masculine] (Italian), oskulum [masculine] (Polish), ósculo [masculine] (Portuguese), оскулум (oskulum) [masculine] (Russian), оскулум [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), oskulum [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), ósculo [masculine] (Spanish), оскулюм (oskuljum) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: osculum infame

Noun [Latin]

IPA: /ˈoːs.ku.lum/ [Classical-Latin], [ˈoːs̠kʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ] [Classical-Latin], /ˈos.ku.lum/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ˈɔskulum] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From ōs (“mouth”) + -culum (diminutive suffix). Etymology templates: {{affix|la|ōs|-culus|alt2=-culum|gloss1=mouth|pos2=diminutive suffix}} ōs (“mouth”) + -culum (diminutive suffix) Head templates: {{la-noun|ōsculum<2>}} ōsculum n (genitive ōsculī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|ōsculum<2>}} Forms: ōsculum [canonical, neuter], ōsculī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], ōsculum [nominative, singular], ōscula [nominative, plural], ōsculī [genitive, singular], ōsculōrum [genitive, plural], ōsculō [dative, singular], ōsculīs [dative, plural], ōsculum [accusative, singular], ōscula [accusative, plural], ōsculō [ablative, singular], ōsculīs [ablative, plural], ōsculum [singular, vocative], ōscula [plural, vocative]
  1. a kiss Tags: declension-2 Synonyms (kiss): bāsium [neuter], suāvium [neuter]
    Sense id: en-osculum-la-noun-u~4YYF3y Categories (other): Latin neuter nouns in the second declension Disambiguation of Latin neuter nouns in the second declension: 33 33 33 Disambiguation of 'kiss': 100 0 0
  2. a little mouth Tags: declension-2
    Sense id: en-osculum-la-noun-mPgdxtLG Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin neuter nouns in the second declension, Latin terms suffixed with -culus Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 26 29 28 2 12 2 Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 3 93 3 Disambiguation of Latin neuter nouns in the second declension: 33 33 33 Disambiguation of Latin terms suffixed with -culus: 16 69 16
  3. (New Latin) a small orifice Tags: New-Latin, declension-2
    Sense id: en-osculum-la-noun-PP2ed9MG Categories (other): New Latin, Latin neuter nouns in the second declension Disambiguation of Latin neuter nouns in the second declension: 33 33 33
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Synonyms: ausculum [hypercorrect] Related terms: ōs

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "expansion": "→ Portuguese: ósculo",
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        }
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        "table-tags"
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        "ablative",
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        "singular",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
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        {
          "english": "He holds her in loving embraces, and her tears he dries through kisses.\n(Ariadne and her husband Dionysus reconcile following his infidelity to her.)",
          "ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.509",
          "text": "occupat amplexū lacrimāsque per ōscula siccat"
        }
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        "a kiss"
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      "id": "en-osculum-la-noun-u~4YYF3y",
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "sense": "kiss",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "bāsium"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "sense": "kiss",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
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        }
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      "tags": [
        "declension-2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "26 29 28 2 12 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 93 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 33 33",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin neuter nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 69 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin terms suffixed with -culus",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a little mouth"
      ],
      "id": "en-osculum-la-noun-mPgdxtLG",
      "links": [
        [
          "mouth",
          "mouth"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "New Latin",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 33 33",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin neuter nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
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        "a small orifice"
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      "id": "en-osculum-la-noun-PP2ed9MG",
      "links": [
        [
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          "orifice"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(New Latin) a small orifice"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "New-Latin",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈoːs.ku.lum/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈoːs̠kʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈos.ku.lum/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈɔskulum]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "hypercorrect"
      ],
      "word": "ausculum"
    }
  ],
  "word": "osculum"
}
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  "categories": [
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    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with irregular plurals",
    "English terms borrowed from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "osculum infame"
    }
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        "4": "",
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    {
      "form": "oscula",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "osculum (plural oscula)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "A small opening or orifice."
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        [
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          "zoology"
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          "opening",
          "opening"
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          "orifice",
          "orifice"
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        "(chiefly zoology) A small opening or orifice."
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        "biology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "en:Zoology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One of the suckers on the head of a tapeworm."
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      "links": [
        [
          "zoology",
          "zoology"
        ],
        [
          "sucker",
          "sucker"
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        [
          "head",
          "head"
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        [
          "tapeworm",
          "tapeworm"
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        "(zoology, obsolete) One of the suckers on the head of a tapeworm."
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      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
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        "biology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Zoology"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1857, J. S. Bowerbank, “On the Vital Powers of the Spongiadæ”, in Report of the 26th Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, John Murray, page 444:",
          "text": "I left them in that condition, and at 7 o'clock examined them again, when I found them still quiescent; but one of the two large groups of oscula and the new one were entirely closed, while the other osculum at the largest end of the sponge had opened to the extent of about one-third of its diameter, and the membrane presented the appearance of a series of lines or corrugations radiating from the centre to the circumference.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 29:",
          "text": "Waste water was expelled through a single osculum at about 8.5 cm per second – more than eight thousand times as fast as it circulated in the chambers and 85 times as fast as it entered the sponge in the first place.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "2012, Sally P. Lees, April Hill, The Physiology and Molecular Biology of Sponge Tissues, Mikel A. Becerro, Maria J. Uriz, Manuel Maldonado, Xavier Turon (editors), Michael Lesser (series editor), Advances in Marine Biology 62: Advances in Sponge Science, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 30,\nOscula are also thought to arise initially from a single porocyte (Weissenfels, 1980), but how they coordinate with other porocytes to form a larger osculum is still unclear."
        }
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        "The main opening in a sponge from which water is expelled."
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      "links": [
        [
          "zoology",
          "zoology"
        ],
        [
          "sponge",
          "sponge"
        ],
        [
          "expel",
          "expel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(zoology) The main opening in a sponge from which water is expelled."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "main opening in a sponge",
      "word": "hylkyaukko"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "main opening in a sponge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "oscule"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "main opening in a sponge",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Osculum"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "main opening in a sponge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "óisín"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "main opening in a sponge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "osculo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "main opening in a sponge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "oskulum"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "main opening in a sponge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ósculo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "oskulum",
      "sense": "main opening in a sponge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "оскулум"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "main opening in a sponge",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "оскулум"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "main opening in a sponge",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "oskulum"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "main opening in a sponge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ósculo"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "oskuljum",
      "sense": "main opening in a sponge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "оскулюм"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "osculum"
  ],
  "word": "osculum"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Latin 3-syllable words",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin neuter nouns",
    "Latin neuter nouns in the second declension",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin second declension nouns",
    "Latin terms suffixed with -culus",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "osculum",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: osculum",
          "name": "descendant"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: osculum"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "oscule",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ French: oscule",
          "name": "descendant"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ French: oscule"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "osculo",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Italian: osculo",
          "name": "descendant"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Italian: osculo"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "uști"
          },
          "expansion": "Romanian: uști",
          "name": "descendant"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romanian: uști"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "ósculo",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Portuguese: ósculo",
          "name": "descendant"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Portuguese: ósculo"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "ósculo",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: ósculo",
          "name": "descendant"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: ósculo"
    }
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ōs",
        "3": "-culus",
        "alt2": "-culum",
        "gloss1": "mouth",
        "pos2": "diminutive suffix"
      },
      "expansion": "ōs (“mouth”) + -culum (diminutive suffix)",
      "name": "affix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From ōs (“mouth”) + -culum (diminutive suffix).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ōsculum",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ōsculī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
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        "inflection-template"
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    {
      "form": "ōsculum",
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      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "ōscula",
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      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ōsculī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ōsculōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ōsculō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ōsculīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ōsculum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ōscula",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ōsculō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ōsculīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ōsculum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ōscula",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ōsculum<2>"
      },
      "expansion": "ōsculum n (genitive ōsculī); second declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ōsculum<2>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
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  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "ōs"
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "english": "He holds her in loving embraces, and her tears he dries through kisses.\n(Ariadne and her husband Dionysus reconcile following his infidelity to her.)",
          "ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.509",
          "text": "occupat amplexū lacrimāsque per ōscula siccat"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a kiss"
      ],
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        [
          "kiss",
          "kiss"
        ]
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      "tags": [
        "declension-2"
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      "glosses": [
        "a little mouth"
      ],
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        [
          "mouth",
          "mouth"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2"
      ]
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      "categories": [
        "New Latin"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a small orifice"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "orifice",
          "orifice"
        ]
      ],
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        "(New Latin) a small orifice"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "New-Latin",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈoːs.ku.lum/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈoːs̠kʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈos.ku.lum/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈɔskulum]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "kiss",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "bāsium"
    },
    {
      "sense": "kiss",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "suāvium"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "hypercorrect"
      ],
      "word": "ausculum"
    }
  ],
  "word": "osculum"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.