See -ec in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"links": [
[
"demonym",
"demonym#English"
],
[
"-ie",
"-ie#English"
],
[
"-sko",
"-sko#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"animate",
"inanimate",
"masculine",
"morpheme"
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "vzor + -ec → vzorec (“formula”)",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"appended to nouns to derive a specialized substantive, most often in terminology"
],
"tags": [
"animate",
"inanimate",
"masculine",
"morpheme"
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "zbabělý + -ec → zbabělec (“coward”)",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"appended to adjective to form a noun describing somebody or something having the specific quality"
],
"tags": [
"animate",
"inanimate",
"masculine",
"morpheme"
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "plavat + -ec → plavec (“swimmer”)",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"appended to a verb to form an agent noun"
],
"links": [
[
"agent noun",
"agent noun#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"animate",
"inanimate",
"masculine",
"morpheme"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Czech dated terms",
"Czech dialectal terms"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "chlap + -ec → chlapec",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"appended to a noun to form a diminutive"
],
"links": [
[
"diminutive",
"diminutive#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dated, dialectal) appended to a noun to form a diminutive"
],
"tags": [
"animate",
"dated",
"dialectal",
"inanimate",
"masculine",
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ ɛt͡s]"
}
],
"word": "-ec"
}
Download raw JSONL data for -ec meaning in Czech (7.1kB)
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
"msg": "unrecognized head form: noun-forming suffix",
"path": [
"-ec"
],
"section": "Czech",
"subsection": "suffix",
"title": "-ec",
"trace": ""
}
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