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]
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]
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]
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]
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"plural"
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"categories": [
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"kind": "other",
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},
{
"kind": "lifeform",
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"wasp",
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"tags": [
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"ipa": "/spʰɛ̌ːks/"
},
{
"ipa": "/sɸiks/"
},
{
"ipa": "/sfiks/"
},
{
"ipa": "/spʰɛ̌ːks/",
"note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
},
{
"ipa": "/spʰe̝ks/",
"note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
},
{
"ipa": "/sɸiks/",
"note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
},
{
"ipa": "/sfiks/",
"note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
},
{
"ipa": "/sfiks/",
"note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
}
],
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}
{
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"3": "",
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"name": "m"
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"3": "",
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"3": "",
"4": "drone, bee"
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"romanization"
]
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"form": "σφηκός",
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"genitive"
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},
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"form": "Third declension",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"class"
]
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{
"form": "ὁ σφήξ",
"roman": "ho sphḗx",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "τὼ σφῆκε",
"roman": "tṑ sphêke",
"source": "inflection",
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"dual",
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]
},
{
"form": "οἱ σφῆκες",
"roman": "hoi sphêkes",
"source": "inflection",
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"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "τοῦ σφηκός",
"roman": "toû sphēkós",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "τοῖν σφηκοῖν",
"roman": "toîn sphēkoîn",
"source": "inflection",
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"dual",
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "τῶν σφηκῶν",
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"source": "inflection",
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"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "τῷ σφηκῐ́",
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"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "τοῖν σφηκοῖν",
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"source": "inflection",
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"dative",
"dual"
]
},
{
"form": "τοῖς σφηξῐ́",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"dative",
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]
},
{
"form": "toîs sphēxí",
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"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "τὸν σφῆκᾰ",
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"singular"
]
},
{
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]
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"form": "τοὺς σφῆκᾰς",
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]
},
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]
},
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},
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}
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"Ancient Greek lemmas",
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"Ancient Greek nouns",
"Ancient Greek oxytone terms",
"Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate",
"Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes",
"Ancient Greek third-declension nouns",
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},
{
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{
"ipa": "/spʰɛ̌ːks/",
"note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
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{
"ipa": "/spʰe̝ks/",
"note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
},
{
"ipa": "/sɸiks/",
"note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
},
{
"ipa": "/sfiks/",
"note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
},
{
"ipa": "/sfiks/",
"note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
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}
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