See suffrage on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1833, Henry Clay, edited by Thomas Hart Benton, Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, published 1859, page 213:",
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"text": "1564, Pope Pius IV (unknown translator), Creed of Pope Pius IV\nI firmly believe that there is a purgatory, and that the souls therein detained are helped by the suffrages of the faithful."
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"French lemmas",
"French masculine nouns",
"French nouns",
"French terms borrowed from Latin",
"French terms derived from Latin",
"French terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "suffrage restreint"
},
{
"word": "suffrage universel"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "sufragiu",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Romanian: sufragiu",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Romanian: sufragiu"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "la",
"3": "suffragium",
"4": "",
"5": "support, vote, right of voting"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Latin suffragium (“support, vote, right of voting”)",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin suffragium (“support, vote, right of voting”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "suffrages",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "suffrage m (plural suffrages)",
"name": "fr-noun"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"suffrage (right to vote)"
],
"links": [
[
"suffrage",
"suffrage#English"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "droit de vote"
}
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"suffrage (prayer)"
],
"links": [
[
"suffrage",
"suffrage#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sy.fʁaʒ/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-suffrage.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/62/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-suffrage.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-suffrage.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/62/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-suffrage.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-suffrage.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "suffrage"
}
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