"vates" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈveɪtiz/
Etymology: From Latin vātēs, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂t- (“excited, possessed”); cognate with Proto-Celtic *wātis (“seer”) (Gaulish ουατεις, Old Irish fáith, Welsh gwawd) and Proto-Germanic *wōdaz (“mad”) (Old English wōd (“mad, frenzied”), Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐌳𐍃 (wōds, “possessed, mad”), Old High German wuot (“mad, madness”). More at wood (“crazy, mad, insane”) and wode. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*weh₂t-}}, {{bor|en|la|vātēs}} Latin vātēs, {{der|en|ine-pro|*weh₂t-||excited, possessed}} Proto-Indo-European *weh₂t- (“excited, possessed”), {{cog|cel-pro|*wātis||seer}} Proto-Celtic *wātis (“seer”), {{cog|cel-gau|ουατεις|sc=Grek}} Gaulish ουατεις, {{cog|sga|fáith}} Old Irish fáith, {{cog|cy|gwawd}} Welsh gwawd, {{cog|gem-pro|*wōdaz||mad}} Proto-Germanic *wōdaz (“mad”), {{cog|ang|wōd||mad, frenzied}} Old English wōd (“mad, frenzied”), {{cog|got|𐍅𐍉𐌳𐍃||possessed, mad}} Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐌳𐍃 (wōds, “possessed, mad”), {{cog|goh|wuot||mad, madness}} Old High German wuot (“mad, madness”), {{m|en|wood|gloss=crazy, mad, insane}} wood (“crazy, mad, insane”), {{m|en|wode}} wode Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} vates
  1. A poet or bard who is divinely inspired. Categories (topical): People Derived forms: sacer vates Translations (divinely inspired poet): оват (ovat) (Bulgarian), vat [masculine] (Catalan), vaatti (Finnish), vate (French), vátesz (Hungarian), vate [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), vate [masculine] (Spanish), vates (Welsh)

Noun [Latin]

IPA: /ˈu̯aː.teːs/ [Classical], [ˈu̯äːt̪eːs̠] [Classical], /ˈva.tes/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ˈväːt̪es] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Proto-Italic *wātis, from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₂t-i-s (“seer”), from *weh₂t- (“to be excited”). Etymology templates: {{root|la|ine-pro|*weh₂t-}}, {{inh|la|itc-pro|*wātis}} Proto-Italic *wātis, {{inh|la|ine-pro|*wéh₂tis|*wéh₂t-i-s|seer}} Proto-Indo-European *wéh₂t-i-s (“seer”), {{m|ine-pro|*weh₂t-||to be excited}} *weh₂t- (“to be excited”) Head templates: {{la-noun|vātēs<3>|g=m|gen_pl=vātum/vātium}} vātēs m (genitive vātis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|vātēs<3>|gen_pl=vātum/vātium}} Forms: vātēs [canonical, masculine], vātis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], vātēs [nominative, singular], vātēs [nominative, plural], vātis [genitive, singular], vātum [genitive, plural], vātium [genitive, plural], vātī [dative, singular], vātibus [dative, plural], vātem [accusative, singular], vātēs [accusative, plural], vātīs [accusative, plural], vāte [ablative, singular], vātibus [ablative, plural], vātēs [singular, vocative], vātēs [plural, vocative]
  1. seer, soothsayer, prophet, prophetess Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-vates-la-noun-jHI8SWcx Categories (other): Latin masculine nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the third declension: 40 40 20
  2. poet, poetess, bard Tags: declension-3 Synonyms: poēta
    Sense id: en-vates-la-noun-3SbbRoy2 Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin masculine nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 40 59 2 Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the third declension: 40 40 20
  3. oracle Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-vates-la-noun-kgKvbOkl Categories (other): Latin masculine nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the third declension: 40 40 20
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: vātis Derived forms: vāticinor

Noun [Latvian]

Head templates: {{head|lv|noun form|g=f}} vates f
  1. genitive singular of vate Tags: feminine, form-of, genitive, singular Form of: vate
    Sense id: en-vates-lv-noun-xHxGZxBV Categories (other): Latvian entries with incorrect language header

Noun [Spanish]

Head templates: {{head|es|noun form|g=m-p}} vates m pl
  1. plural of vate Tags: form-of, masculine, plural Form of: vate
    Sense id: en-vates-es-noun-dTalu8D- Categories (other): Spanish entries with incorrect language header

Noun [Volapük]

Head templates: {{head|vo|noun form}} vates
  1. dative plural of vat Tags: dative, form-of, plural Form of: vat
    Sense id: en-vates-vo-noun-WLTgoPf3 Categories (other): Volapük entries with incorrect language header

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      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "form-of",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "vates"
}

{
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    {
      "args": {
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    }
  ],
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    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          ],
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        }
      ],
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        {
          "word": "vate"
        }
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        "plural of vate"
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        [
          "vate",
          "vate#Spanish"
        ]
      ],
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        "form-of",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "vates"
}

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      "args": {
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      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Volapük entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        }
      ],
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        {
          "word": "vat"
        }
      ],
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        "dative plural of vat"
      ],
      "id": "en-vates-vo-noun-WLTgoPf3",
      "links": [
        [
          "vat",
          "vat#Volapük"
        ]
      ],
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        "dative",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "vates"
}
{
  "derived": [
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      "word": "sacer vates"
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
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      },
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      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "3": "*weh₂t-",
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
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        "3": "",
        "4": "seer"
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      "expansion": "Proto-Celtic *wātis (“seer”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "cel-gau",
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        "sc": "Grek"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "2": "fáith"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish fáith",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cy",
        "2": "gwawd"
      },
      "expansion": "Welsh gwawd",
      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "3": "",
        "4": "mad"
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      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wōdaz (“mad”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "wōd",
        "3": "",
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      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "got",
        "2": "𐍅𐍉𐌳𐍃",
        "3": "",
        "4": "possessed, mad"
      },
      "expansion": "Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐌳𐍃 (wōds, “possessed, mad”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "wuot",
        "3": "",
        "4": "mad, madness"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German wuot (“mad, madness”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "wood",
        "gloss": "crazy, mad, insane"
      },
      "expansion": "wood (“crazy, mad, insane”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "wode"
      },
      "expansion": "wode",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin vātēs, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂t- (“excited, possessed”); cognate with Proto-Celtic *wātis (“seer”) (Gaulish ουατεις, Old Irish fáith, Welsh gwawd) and Proto-Germanic *wōdaz (“mad”) (Old English wōd (“mad, frenzied”), Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐌳𐍃 (wōds, “possessed, mad”), Old High German wuot (“mad, madness”). More at wood (“crazy, mad, insane”) and wode.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "vates",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Bulgarian terms with redundant script codes",
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals",
        "English terms borrowed from Latin",
        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weh₂t-",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:People"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1833 May, “Hayward’s Translation of Goethe’s “Faust””, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume VII, number XLI, London: James Fraser […], →OCLC, page 532, column 1",
          "text": "[Percy Bysshe] Shelley, a true vates, was called upon by their divine influence to render some choice passages from this very Faust, which, from confessed inability, [Francis Leveson-]Gower had left unattempted in his precious version, and some which from other motives he had purposely reticensed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Dennis Richard Danielson, The Cambridge Companion to Milton, Cambridge University Press, page 57",
          "text": "The volume is haunted by the death of the vates (poet-prophet) Orpheus, who failed to revive Eurydice from death and was then torn apart by maenads.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A poet or bard who is divinely inspired."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poet",
          "poet"
        ],
        [
          "bard",
          "bard"
        ],
        [
          "divinely",
          "divinely"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈveɪtiz/"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ovat",
      "sense": "divinely inspired poet",
      "word": "оват"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "divinely inspired poet",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vat"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "divinely inspired poet",
      "word": "vaatti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "divinely inspired poet",
      "word": "vate"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "divinely inspired poet",
      "word": "vátesz"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "divinely inspired poet",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vate"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "divinely inspired poet",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vate"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "divinely inspired poet",
      "word": "vates"
    }
  ],
  "word": "vates"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Latin 2-syllable words",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin masculine nouns",
    "Latin masculine nouns in the third declension",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
    "Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weh₂t-",
    "Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Latin third declension nouns"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "vāticinor"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "vat"
          },
          "expansion": "Catalan: vat",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Catalan: vat"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "vates"
          },
          "expansion": "English: vates",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: vates"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "vate"
          },
          "expansion": "French: vate",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "French: vate"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "vate"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: vate",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: vate"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "vate"
          },
          "expansion": "Portuguese: vate",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Portuguese: vate"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "vate"
          },
          "expansion": "Spanish: vate",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Spanish: vate"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*weh₂t-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "*wātis"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *wātis",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*wéh₂tis",
        "4": "*wéh₂t-i-s",
        "5": "seer"
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      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *wéh₂t-i-s (“seer”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-pro",
        "2": "*weh₂t-",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to be excited"
      },
      "expansion": "*weh₂t- (“to be excited”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Italic *wātis, from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₂t-i-s (“seer”), from *weh₂t- (“to be excited”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "vātēs",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vātis",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vātēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vātēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vātis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vātum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vātium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vātī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vātibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vātem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vātēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vātīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vāte",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vātibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vātēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vātēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vātēs<3>",
        "g": "m",
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      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vātēs<3>",
        "gen_pl": "vātum/vātium"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "But the fortunate prophetess, since her life was most pleasing to the gods,\nthus as a goddess has a day in this month of Janus.\n(The prophetess who became honored as a goddess is Carmenta).",
          "ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.585–586",
          "roman": "possidet hunc Iānī sīc dea mēnsē diem.",
          "text": "at fēlīx vātēs, ut dīs grātissima vīxit,"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "seer, soothsayer, prophet, prophetess"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "seer",
          "seer"
        ],
        [
          "soothsayer",
          "soothsayer"
        ],
        [
          "prophet",
          "prophet"
        ],
        [
          "prophetess",
          "prophetess"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "poet, poetess, bard"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poet",
          "poet"
        ],
        [
          "poetess",
          "poetess"
        ],
        [
          "bard",
          "bard"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "poēta"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "oracle"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "oracle",
          "oracle"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈu̯aː.teːs/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈu̯äːt̪eːs̠]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈva.tes/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈväːt̪es]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "vātis"
    }
  ],
  "word": "vates"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lv",
        "2": "noun form",
        "g": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "vates f",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latvian",
  "lang_code": "lv",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latvian entries with incorrect language header",
        "Latvian non-lemma forms",
        "Latvian noun forms"
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "vate"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "genitive singular of vate"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "vate",
          "vate#Latvian"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "form-of",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "vates"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "noun form",
        "g": "m-p"
      },
      "expansion": "vates m pl",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Spanish non-lemma forms",
        "Spanish noun forms"
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "vate"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "plural of vate"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "vate",
          "vate#Spanish"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "vates"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vo",
        "2": "noun form"
      },
      "expansion": "vates",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Volapük",
  "lang_code": "vo",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Volapük entries with incorrect language header",
        "Volapük non-lemma forms",
        "Volapük noun forms"
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "vat"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "dative plural of vat"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "vat",
          "vat#Volapük"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "form-of",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "vates"
}

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