See plaudit on Wiktionary
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},
{
"word": "honour"
}
],
"tags": [
"in-plural",
"often",
"rare",
"transitive",
"usually"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈplɔːdɪt/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-plaudit.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/38/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-plaudit.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-plaudit.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/38/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-plaudit.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-plaudit.wav.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔːdɪt"
}
],
"word": "plaudit"
}
{
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{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "plaudit",
"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 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "plaudō"
}
],
"glosses": [
"third-person singular present active indicative of plaudō"
],
"links": [
[
"plaudō",
"plaudo#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"active",
"form-of",
"indicative",
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"word": "plaudit"
}
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