See papabile on Wiktionary
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"Italian terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Italian/abile",
"Rhymes:Italian/abile/4 syllables"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "papa",
"3": "-abile",
"t1": "pope"
},
"expansion": "papa (“pope”) + -abile",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From papa (“pope”) + -abile.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "papabili",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "papabile m (plural papabili)",
"name": "it-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"pa‧pà‧bi‧le"
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"cardinal thought likely to be elected Pope"
],
"links": [
[
"cardinal",
"cardinal"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"person likely to be elected or nominated to an office, job position, etc."
],
"links": [
[
"office",
"office"
],
[
"job",
"job"
],
[
"position",
"position"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension) person likely to be elected or nominated to an office, job position, etc."
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/paˈpa.bi.le/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-abile"
}
],
"word": "papabile"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "adjective form"
},
"expansion": "papabile",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin adjective forms",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin non-lemma forms",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "papabilis"
}
],
"glosses": [
"nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of papabilis"
],
"links": [
[
"papabilis",
"papabilis#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"form-of",
"neuter",
"nominative",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"word": "papabile"
}
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