See sfumato on Wiktionary
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"forms": [
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "ro-noun-n",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "sfumato",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "un sfumato",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sfumatoul",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sfumato",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "unui sfumato",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sfumatoului",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sfumatoule",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "n",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "sfumato n (uncountable)",
"name": "ro-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"g": "n",
"gpd": "sfumatoelor",
"gpi": "sfumatoe",
"gsd": "sfumatoului",
"gsi": "sfumato",
"n": "sg",
"npd": "sfumatoele",
"npi": "sfumatoe",
"nsd": "sfumatoul",
"nsi": "sfumato",
"vp": "sfumatoelor",
"vs": "sfumatoule"
},
"name": "ro-decl-noun-single"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian neuter nouns",
"Romanian nouns",
"Romanian terms borrowed from Italian",
"Romanian terms derived from Italian",
"Romanian unadapted borrowings from Italian",
"Romanian uncountable nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"sfumato"
],
"links": [
[
"sfumato",
"sfumato#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"neuter",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"word": "sfumato"
}
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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[Romanian]; cleaned text: n gender",
"path": [
"sfumato"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "sfumato",
"trace": ""
}
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