See pleonasm on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1939, John Nicholas Hritzu, The Style of the Letters of St. Jerome, Catholic University of America Press, page 5:",
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}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "fr",
"3": "pléonasme"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from French pléonasme",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from French pléonasme.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "pleonasme",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "ro-noun-n",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "pleonasm",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "un pleonasm",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "pleonasmul",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "pleonasme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "niște pleonasme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "pleonasmele",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "pleonasm",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "unui pleonasm",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "pleonasmului",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "pleonasme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "unor pleonasme",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "pleonasmelor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "pleonasmule",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "pleonasmelor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "n",
"2": "pleonasme"
},
"expansion": "pleonasm n (plural pleonasme)",
"name": "ro-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"g": "n",
"gpd": "pleonasmelor",
"gpi": "pleonasme",
"gsd": "pleonasmului",
"gsi": "pleonasm",
"n": "",
"npd": "pleonasmele",
"npi": "pleonasme",
"nsd": "pleonasmul",
"nsi": "pleonasm",
"vp": "pleonasmelor",
"vs": "pleonasmule"
},
"name": "ro-decl-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Romanian countable nouns",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian neuter nouns",
"Romanian nouns",
"Romanian terms borrowed from French",
"Romanian terms derived from French"
],
"glosses": [
"pleonasm"
],
"links": [
[
"pleonasm",
"pleonasm#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"neuter"
]
}
],
"word": "pleonasm"
}
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