See pyralis on Wiktionary
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]
},
{
"form": "pyrāle",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "pyrālēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "pyrālīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "pyrālia",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "pyrālī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "pyrālibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "pyrālis",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "pyrāle",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "pyrālēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "pyrālia",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pyrālis"
},
"expansion": "pyrālis (neuter pyrāle); third-declension two-termination adjective",
"name": "la-adj"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pyrālis"
},
"name": "la-adecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"word": "pyra"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin relational adjectives"
],
"glosses": [
"funeral pyre"
],
"links": [
[
"funeral pyre",
"funeral pyre"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(relational) funeral pyre"
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"relational",
"two-termination"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pyˈraː.lis/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[pʏˈräːlʲɪs̠]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/piˈra.lis/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[piˈräːlis]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "pyralis"
}
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