See plicate on Wiktionary
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},
{
"ipa": "/plɪˈkeɪt/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/plaɪˈkeɪt/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US",
"verb"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-plicate2.wav",
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}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nagǎvam",
"sense": "biology: to fold",
"word": "нагъвам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nadipljam",
"sense": "biology: to fold",
"word": "надиплям"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "biology: to fold",
"word": "poimuttua"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "biology: to fold",
"word": "plicaturer"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "biology: to fold",
"word": "fill"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "biology: to fold",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "składać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "biology: to fold",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "złożyć"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"note": "of clothing or fabric",
"sense": "biology: to fold",
"word": "plissera"
}
],
"word": "plicate"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "plicāte",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "participle form",
"head": "plicāte"
},
"expansion": "plicāte",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin non-lemma forms",
"Latin participle forms",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "plicātus"
}
],
"glosses": [
"vocative masculine singular of plicātus"
],
"links": [
[
"plicātus",
"plicatus#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"masculine",
"participle",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"word": "plicate"
}
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