See piriformis on Wiktionary
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"name": "la-adecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin 4-syllable words",
"Latin adjectives",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin terms suffixed with -formis",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Latin third declension adjectives",
"Latin third declension adjectives of two terminations",
"New Latin",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Requests for quotations in Latin"
],
"glosses": [
"pear-shaped, pyriform"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"links": [
[
"pear-shaped",
"pear-shaped"
],
[
"pyriform",
"pyriform"
]
],
"tags": [
"New-Latin",
"declension-3",
"two-termination"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pi.riˈfoːr.mis/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[pɪrɪˈfoːrmɪs̠]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pi.riˈfor.mis/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[piriˈfɔrmis]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "piriformis"
}
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"called_from": "page/1713/20221215",
"msg": "later head without list of senses,template node #, piriformis/Latin",
"path": [
"piriformis"
],
"section": "Latin",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "piriformis",
"trace": ""
}
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