See placate on Wiktionary
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"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "placate",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "placare"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of placare:",
"second-person plural present indicative"
],
"links": [
[
"placare",
"placare#Italian"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"indicative",
"plural",
"present",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "placare"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of placare:",
"second-person plural imperative"
],
"links": [
[
"placare",
"placare#Italian"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"imperative",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "placare"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of placare:",
"feminine plural past participle"
],
"links": [
[
"placare",
"placare#Italian"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"form-of",
"participle",
"past",
"plural"
]
}
],
"word": "placate"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "plācāte",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "verb form",
"head": "plācāte"
},
"expansion": "plācāte",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin non-lemma forms",
"Latin verb forms",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "plācō"
}
],
"glosses": [
"second-person plural present active imperative of plācō"
],
"links": [
[
"plācō",
"placo#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"active",
"form-of",
"imperative",
"plural",
"present",
"second-person"
]
}
],
"word": "placate"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "placate",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish non-lemma forms",
"Spanish verb forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "placar"
}
],
"glosses": [
"second-person singular voseo imperative of placar combined with te"
],
"links": [
[
"placar",
"placar#Spanish"
],
[
"te",
"te#Spanish"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"imperative",
"object-second-person",
"object-singular",
"second-person",
"singular",
"with-voseo"
]
}
],
"word": "placate"
}
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