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"sense": "expert",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "നിപുണൻ"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "expert",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "perito"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "specialíst",
"sense": "expert",
"word": "специали́ст"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ekspért",
"sense": "expert",
"word": "экспе́рт"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "expert",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "experto"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "expert",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "perito"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "expert",
"word": "usta"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "specialíst",
"sense": "expert",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "спеціалі́ст"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "ékspert",
"sense": "expert",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "е́ксперт"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "faxivécʹ",
"sense": "expert",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "фахіве́ць"
}
],
"word": "proficient"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "prōficient",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "verb form",
"head": "prōficient"
},
"expansion": "prōficient",
"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": "prōficiō"
}
],
"glosses": [
"third-person plural future active indicative of prōficiō"
],
"links": [
[
"prōficiō",
"proficio#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"active",
"form-of",
"future",
"indicative",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"word": "proficient"
}
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