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"Terms with Estonian translations",
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"2": "la",
"3": "Laurentius"
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"name": "uder"
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"sense": "feminine forms",
"word": "Lauren"
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{
"sense": "feminine forms",
"word": "Laura"
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{
"sense": "pet forms",
"word": "Larry"
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{
"sense": "pet forms",
"word": "Laurie"
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{
"sense": "pet forms",
"word": "Lawrie"
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{
"sense": "pet forms",
"word": "Lol"
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"tags": [
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"tags": [
"surname"
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"word": "Lourie"
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"surname"
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"word": "Loury"
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"surname"
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"word": "Lowrie"
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"tags": [
"surname"
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],
"word": "Lars"
},
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"tags": [
"variant"
],
"word": "Loren"
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{
"tags": [
"variant"
],
"word": "Lorenzo"
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{
"word": "Laura and its variants"
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"ref": "c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:",
"text": "Romeo: Bid her devise / Some means to come to shrift this afternoon; / And there she shall at Friar Laurence' cell / Be shriv'd and married.",
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{
"ref": "1835, Mary Shelley, Lodore, Wallis&Newell, published 1835, page 30:",
"text": "\"I will do any thing, however impossible, if you will only not call me Mr Hervey. Why am I not Laurence to you - Miss Vivian calls me Laurence - I am Laurence to every one but you - let me hear you call me Laurence,\" in an earnest manner.",
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]
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"ipa": "/ˈlɒ.ɹəns/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈlɔɹəns/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈlɑɹəns/",
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"New-York-City"
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒɹəns"
}
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"english": "usual US spelling",
"word": "Lawrence"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "male given name",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Renës"
},
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "male given name",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Renes"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "لورانس"
},
{
"code": "an",
"lang": "Aragonese",
"sense": "male given name",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Lorient"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"english": "Loris",
"lang": "Armenian",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Լորիս"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Llorenç"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "勞倫斯"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Láolunsī",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "劳伦斯"
},
{
"code": "co",
"lang": "Corsican",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Lorenzu"
},
{
"code": "co",
"lang": "Corsican",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Lurenzu"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Vavřinec"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Lars"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Laurens"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Laŭrenco"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Lauri"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "male given name",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Lavrans"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "male given name",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Laars"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "male given name",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Lars"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Lauri"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Laurent"
},
{
"code": "fro",
"lang": "Old French",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Lorenz"
},
{
"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Lurinç"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Lourenzo"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Lorenz"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "Lavréntios",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Λαυρέντιος"
},
{
"code": "kl",
"lang": "Greenlandic",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Laasi"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Lőrinc"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Lárus"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "male given name",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Labhrás"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Lorenzo"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "Rorensu",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "ロレンス"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "Rōran",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "ローラン"
},
{
"code": "lld",
"lang": "Ladin",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Laurënz"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Laurentius"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Lauris"
},
{
"code": "lij",
"lang": "Ligurian",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Loénso"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Laurynas"
},
{
"code": "lmo",
"lang": "Lombard",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Lorenz"
},
{
"code": "nap",
"lang": "Neapolitan",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Lurenzo"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Louothains"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Lars"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Laurits"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "male given name",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Laurenç"
},
{
"code": "non",
"lang": "Old Norse",
"sense": "male given name",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Lafranz"
},
{
"code": "pro",
"lang": "Old Occitan",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Laurens"
},
{
"code": "tpw",
"lang": "Old Tupi",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Rorẽso"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Laurencjusz"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Laurenty"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Wawrzyniec"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Lourenço"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "male given name",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Laurêncio"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Laurențiu"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Lavréntij",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Лавре́нтий"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Labhrainn"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "male given name",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "Ловро"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "male given name",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "Lovro"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Vavrinec"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Lovrenc"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Lorenzo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Lars"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "Lavréntij",
"sense": "male given name",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Лавре́нтій"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetan",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Łorenso"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Lôrensô"
}
],
"word": "Laurence"
}
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