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"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "placebo",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "un placebo",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "placeboul",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "placebo",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "unui placebo",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "placeboului",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "placeboule",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "n",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "placebo n (uncountable)",
"name": "ro-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"g": "n",
"gpd": "placeboelor",
"gpi": "placeboe",
"gsd": "placeboului",
"gsi": "placebo",
"n": "sg",
"npd": "placeboele",
"npi": "placeboe",
"nsd": "placeboul",
"nsi": "placebo",
"vp": "placeboelor",
"vs": "placeboule"
},
"name": "ro-decl-noun-single"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian neuter nouns",
"Romanian nouns",
"Romanian terms borrowed from French",
"Romanian terms derived from French",
"Romanian uncountable nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"placebo"
],
"links": [
[
"placebo",
"placebo#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"neuter",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"word": "placebo"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "efecto placebo"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "NL.",
"3": "placēbō"
},
"expansion": "New Latin placēbō",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "la",
"3": "placēbō",
"lit": "I will please"
},
"expansion": "Latin placēbō (literally “I will please”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From medical New Latin placēbō, from Latin placēbō (literally “I will please”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "placebos",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "placebo m (plural placebos)",
"name": "es-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Spanish countable nouns",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish masculine nouns",
"Spanish nouns",
"Spanish terms borrowed from New Latin",
"Spanish terms derived from Latin",
"Spanish terms derived from New Latin"
],
"glosses": [
"placebo"
],
"links": [
[
"placebo",
"placebo#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "placebo"
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/2466",
"msg": "accepted heuristic header: table cell identified as header and given candidate status, AND the cleaned text is in LANGUAGES_WITH_CELLS_AS_HEADERS[Romanian]; cleaned text: n gender",
"path": [
"placebo"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "placebo",
"trace": ""
}
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