See spermaceti on Wiktionary
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"lang1": "la",
"lang2": "la",
"t1": "sperm",
"t2": "of the whale"
},
"expansion": "Latin sperma (“sperm”) + Latin cētī (“of the whale”)",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin sperma (“sperm”) + Latin cētī (“of the whale”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "spermaceti m",
"name": "it-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"sper‧ma‧cè‧ti"
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Italian 4-syllable words",
"Italian compound terms",
"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"Italian lemmas",
"Italian masculine nouns",
"Italian nouns",
"Italian terms derived from Latin",
"Italian terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Italian/ɛti",
"Rhymes:Italian/ɛti/4 syllables",
"it:Whales"
],
"glosses": [
"spermaceti"
],
"links": [
[
"spermaceti",
"spermaceti#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"wikipedia": [
"it:spermaceti"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sper.maˈt͡ʃɛ.ti/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛti"
}
],
"word": "spermaceti"
}
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