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{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "grc",
"3": "λύγξ",
"4": "",
"5": "lynx"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx, “lynx”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "Felis",
"2": "genus"
},
"expansion": "Felis",
"name": "taxfmt"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle French once (“lynx, wild cat”) under influence from once (Latin uncia, “ounce”), from false division of Old French lonce (“lynx”) mistaking its initial l for the article l', from Vulgar Latin *luncea possibly via Italian lonza, from Latin lynx, from Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx, “lynx”). First used in reference to the snow leopard by Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber in 1777 as Felis uncia.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "unciae",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "uncia",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "unciae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "unciae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "unciārum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "unciae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "unciīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "unciam",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "unciās",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "unciā",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "unciīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "uncia",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "unciae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "uncia<1>"
},
"expansion": "uncia f (genitive unciae); first declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "uncia<1>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"New Latin"
],
"glosses": [
"snow leopard"
],
"links": [
[
"snow leopard",
"snow leopard"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(New Latin) snow leopard"
],
"tags": [
"New-Latin",
"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber"
],
"word": "uncia"
}
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