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{
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{
"word": "antithesis"
}
],
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"word": "epitomic"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "epitomical"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "epitomize"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "epitomous"
}
],
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"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*temh₁-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
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"2": "frm",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Middle French",
"name": "bor"
},
{
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"2": "la",
"3": "epitomē"
},
"expansion": "Latin epitomē",
"name": "der"
},
{
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"2": "grc",
"3": "ἐπιτομή",
"4": "",
"5": "an abridgment, also a surface-incision"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ἐπιτομή (epitomḗ, “an abridgment, also a surface-incision”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
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"2": "ἐπιτέμνω",
"3": "",
"4": "I cut upon the surface, cut short, abridge"
},
"expansion": "ἐπιτέμνω (epitémnō, “I cut upon the surface, cut short, abridge”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
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"2": "ἐπι-",
"3": "τέμνω",
"t1": "up",
"t2": "to cut"
},
"expansion": "ἐπι- (epi-, “up”) + τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”)",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle French, from Latin epitomē, from Ancient Greek ἐπιτομή (epitomḗ, “an abridgment, also a surface-incision”), from ἐπιτέμνω (epitémnō, “I cut upon the surface, cut short, abridge”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “up”) + τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "epitomes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "epitomai",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
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"2": "epitomai"
},
"expansion": "epitome (plural epitomes or epitomai)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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"word": "epitomator"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "epitomist"
},
{
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"word": "epitomizer"
}
],
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{
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"name": "Ancient Greek terms prefixed with ἐπι-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
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"The embodiment or encapsulation of a class of items."
],
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"links": [
[
"embodiment",
"embodiment"
],
[
"encapsulation",
"encapsulation"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "exemplar"
},
{
"word": "model"
},
{
"word": "type"
},
{
"word": "exemplar"
},
{
"word": "model"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"word": "toonbeeld"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"word": "mishërim"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "maṯāl",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "مَثَال"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "ŭvasabljénnje",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"word": "ўвасабле́нне"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vǎplǎšténie",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "въплъще́ние"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"word": "縮影"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "suōyǐng",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"word": "缩影"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"word": "ztělesnění"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"word": "indbegrebet"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "verwezenlijking"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "belichaming"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "personificatie"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"word": "epitoom"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"word": "ruumiillistuma"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"word": "résumé"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "épitomé"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"word": "epítome"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Verkörperlichung"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "epitomí",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"word": "επιτομή"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "epitomḗ",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ἐπιτομή"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "tamtsot",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"word": "תמצית"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"word": "ímynd"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"word": "epitome"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"alt": "しゅくず",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "shukuzu",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"word": "縮図"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"word": "innbegrepet"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"word": "خلاصه"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ucieleśnienie"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"word": "epítome"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "voploščénije",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"word": "воплоще́ние"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "olicetvorénije",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "олицетворе́ние"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "епитом"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"neuter"
],
"word": "утјеловљење"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "персонификација"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"neuter"
],
"word": "оваплоћење"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "epitom"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"neuter"
],
"word": "utjelovljenje"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "personifikacija"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"neuter"
],
"word": "ovaploćenje"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"word": "epítome"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"word": "sammandrag"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "personifiering"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "inbegrepp"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "inkarnation"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"word": "özet"
},
{
"_dis1": "76 19 5 1",
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "ypitami",
"sense": "embodiment or encapsulation of",
"word": "יפּיטאַמי"
}
]
},
{
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"name": "Ancient Greek terms prefixed with ἐπι-",
"parents": [],
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},
{
"_dis": "8 48 38 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1988, “Don't Believe the Hype”, in It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, performed by Public Enemy",
"text": "The minute they see me, fear me / I'm the epitome of \"public enemy\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A representative example."
],
"id": "en-epitome-en-noun-~0Kw6UVp",
"links": [
[
"representative",
"representative"
],
[
"example",
"example"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "quintessential"
},
{
"word": "poster child"
},
{
"word": "exemplar"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "10 88 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "representative example",
"word": "ruumiillistuma"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 88 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "representative example",
"word": "malliesimerkki"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 88 1 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "representative example",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "personnification"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 88 1 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "representative example",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "incarnation"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 88 1 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "representative example",
"word": "típuspélda"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 88 1 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "representative example",
"word": "megtestesülés"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 88 1 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "representative example",
"word": "megtestesítő"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 88 1 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"note": "in adjectival role",
"sense": "representative example",
"word": "megtestesült"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 88 1 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"note": "in adjectival role",
"sense": "representative example",
"word": "két lábon járó"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 88 1 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "representative example",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "personificazione"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 88 1 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "representative example",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "incarnazione"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 88 1 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "representative example",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "personificare"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 88 1 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obrazec",
"sense": "representative example",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "образец"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 88 1 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "representative example",
"word": "personifikation"
}
]
},
{
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{
"_dis": "24 28 32 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek terms prefixed with ἐπι-",
"parents": [],
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}
],
"glosses": [
"The height; the best; the most vivid."
],
"id": "en-epitome-en-noun-J3z~doDH",
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[
"height",
"height"
],
[
"best",
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[
"vivid",
"vivid"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "acme"
},
{
"word": "greatest"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "2 1 97 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "the height; the best",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "toppunt"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 97 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the height; the best",
"word": "ruumiillistuma"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 97 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "the height; the best",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "apice"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 97 0",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "the height; the best",
"word": "karamata"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 97 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "etalon",
"sense": "the height; the best",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "эталон"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "24 28 32 16",
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"name": "Ancient Greek terms prefixed with ἐπι-",
"parents": [],
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}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1611, Thomas Coryate, Coryat's Crudities hastily gobbled up in Five Months Travels in France, Italy, &c",
"text": "Having now so amply declared unto thee most of the principal things of this thrice-renowned and illustrious city, I will briefly by way of an epitome mention most of the other particulars thereof, and so finally shut up this narration: there are reported to be in Venice and the circumjacent islands two hundred churches in which are one hundred forth-three pairs of organs, fifty-four monasteries, twenty-six nunneries, fifty-six tribunals or places of judgment, seventeen hospitals, six companies or fraternities, whereof I have before spoken; one hundred and sixty-five marble statues of worthy personages, partly equestrial, partly pedestrial, which are erected in sundry places of the city, to the honour of those that either at home have prudently administered the commonweal, or abroad valiantly fought for the same.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A brief summary of a text."
],
"id": "en-epitome-en-noun-s2AoZnZx",
"links": [
[
"brief",
"brief"
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[
"summary",
"summary"
],
[
"text",
"text"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "abstract"
},
{
"word": "synopsis"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 94",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "rezjume",
"sense": "summary",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "резюме"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 94",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "summary",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "samenvatting"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 94",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "summary",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "synopsis"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 94",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "summary",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "uittreksel"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 94",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "summary",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "excerpt"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 94",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "summary",
"word": "tiivistelmä"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 94",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "summary",
"word": "abstrakti"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 94",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "summary",
"word": "yhteenveto"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 94",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "summary",
"word": "résumé"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 94",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "summary",
"word": "abrégé"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 94",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "summary",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Abriss"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 94",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "epitomḗ",
"sense": "summary",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ἐπιτομή"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 94",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "summary",
"word": "összegzés"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 94",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "summary",
"word": "összefoglalás"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 94",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "summary",
"word": "kivonat"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 94",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "summary",
"word": "foglalat"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 94",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "summary",
"word": "lényeg"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 94",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "summary",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gearrinsint"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 94",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "summary",
"word": "yhteenveto"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "summary",
"word": "résumé"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "summary",
"word": "abrégé"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "summary",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Abriss"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "epitomḗ",
"sense": "summary",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ἐπιτομή"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "summary",
"word": "összegzés"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "summary",
"word": "összefoglalás"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "summary",
"word": "kivonat"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "summary",
"word": "foglalat"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "summary",
"word": "lényeg"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "summary",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gearrinsint"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "summary",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "compendio"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "summary",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sommario"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "summary",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sunto"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "summary",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sinossi"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "summary",
"word": "epitome"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "summary",
"word": "epítome"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "konspékt",
"sense": "summary",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "конспе́кт"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "krátkoje izložénije",
"sense": "summary",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "кра́ткое изложе́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rezjumɛ́",
"sense": "summary",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "резюме́"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "summary",
"word": "sinopsis"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "summary",
"word": "epitom"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "summary",
"word": "epítome"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "summary",
"word": "resumen"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "summary",
"word": "sinopsis"
}
],
"word": "epitome"
}
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