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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"masculine",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sapientele",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"feminine",
"neuter",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sapient",
"source": "declension",
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"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sapiente",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"feminine",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sapienți",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sapiente",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"feminine",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sapientului",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sapientei",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"feminine",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sapienților",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sapientelor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"feminine",
"genitive",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
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"name": "ro-adj"
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"name": "ro-decl-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"word": "sapiență"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Romanian adjectives",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian terms borrowed from Latin",
"Romanian terms derived from Latin",
"Romanian terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Romanian terms with rare senses"
],
"glosses": [
"learned, wise"
],
"links": [
[
"learned",
"learned"
],
[
"wise",
"wise"
]
],
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"(rare) learned, wise"
],
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{
"word": "înțelept"
},
{
"word": "savant"
},
{
"word": "învățat"
},
{
"word": "doct"
},
{
"word": "erudit"
}
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"neuter",
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌsa.piˈent/"
}
],
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}
{
"called_from": "inflection/2466",
"msg": "accepted heuristic header: table cell identified as header and given candidate status, AND the cleaned text is in LANGUAGES_WITH_CELLS_AS_HEADERS[Old French]; cleaned text: Singular",
"path": [
"sapient"
],
"section": "Old French",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "sapient",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/2466",
"msg": "accepted heuristic header: table cell identified as header and given candidate status, AND the cleaned text is in LANGUAGES_WITH_CELLS_AS_HEADERS[Old French]; cleaned text: Subject",
"path": [
"sapient"
],
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"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "sapient",
"trace": ""
}
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"path": [
"sapient"
],
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"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "sapient",
"trace": ""
}
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"sapient"
],
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"trace": ""
}
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}
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],
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}
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}
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