See wroth on Wiktionary
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"masculine"
],
"word": "broco"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "full of anger",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rabeco"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "full of anger",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "irado"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "full of anger",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "infenso"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "full of anger",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "carraxento"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "full of anger",
"word": "erzürnt"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "full of anger",
"word": "zornig"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "full of anger",
"word": "reiður"
},
{
"alt": "げきどした",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "gekido shita",
"sense": "full of anger",
"word": "激怒した"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "full of anger",
"word": "xezebî"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "full of anger",
"word": "bikerb"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "full of anger",
"word": "bikîn"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "full of anger",
"word": "binefret"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "full of anger",
"word": "gniewny"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razgnévannyj",
"sense": "full of anger",
"word": "разгне́ванный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "gnévnyj",
"sense": "full of anger",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "гне́вный"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "full of anger",
"word": "airado"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "full of anger",
"word": "colérico"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "full of anger",
"word": "torvo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "full of anger",
"word": "vred"
}
],
"word": "wroth"
}
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"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "ang",
"3": "wrāþ"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*wraiþaz",
"4": "",
"5": "cruel"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wraiþaz (“cruel”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*wreyt-",
"4": "",
"5": "to turn"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to turn”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old English wrāþ, from Proto-Germanic *wraiþaz (“cruel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to turn”).",
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{
"args": {
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"3": "",
"4": "{{{1}}}",
"5": "",
"6": "{{{2}}}",
"7": "",
"8": "{{{3}}}",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "wroth",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "wroth",
"name": "enm-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Middle English adjectives",
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English terms derived from Old English",
"Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Middle English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
"Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Middle English terms with quotations",
"Pages with 2 entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "So that the clerks be not with me wrathful\n I say that they [genitals] were made for both\n This is to say, for duty and for ease\n Of reproduction, that we not God displease",
"ref": "1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wyfe of Bathes Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio xxxvii, recto:",
"text": "So that the clerkes be nat with me wroth\n I ſaye that they were maked for bothe\n This is to ſeyn, for offyce and for ease\n Of engendrure, there we nat god diſpleaſe",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Wrathful, wroth."
],
"links": [
[
"Wrathful",
"wrathful"
],
[
"wroth",
"wroth#English"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "wrooth"
},
{
"word": "wroþ"
}
],
"word": "wroth"
}
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