See subaltern on Wiktionary
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"expansion": "Borrowed from French subalterne",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from French subalterne.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "subalterni",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "ro-noun-m",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "subaltern",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "subalternul",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "subalterni",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "subalternii",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "subaltern",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "subalternului",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "subalterni",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "subalternilor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "subalternule",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "subalternilor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"2": "subalterni"
},
"expansion": "subaltern m (plural subalterni)",
"name": "ro-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"g": "m",
"gpd": "subalternilor",
"gpi": "subalterni",
"gsd": "subalternului",
"gsi": "subaltern",
"n": "",
"npd": "subalternii",
"npi": "subalterni",
"nsd": "subalternul",
"nsi": "subaltern",
"vp": "subalternilor",
"vs": "subalternule",
"vs2": ""
},
"name": "ro-decl-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Romanian countable nouns",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian masculine nouns",
"Romanian nouns",
"Romanian terms borrowed from French",
"Romanian terms derived from French"
],
"glosses": [
"underling, subordinate"
],
"links": [
[
"underling",
"underling"
],
[
"subordinate",
"subordinate"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "subaltern"
}
Download raw JSONL data for subaltern meaning in All languages combined (16.9kB)
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'genitive-dative'",
"path": [
"subaltern"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "subaltern",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/20250113b",
"msg": "Rowspan 999 over 30, set to 1",
"path": [
"subaltern"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "subaltern",
"trace": ""
}
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