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"en:Spiders"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "reclus"
},
"expansion": "Old French reclus",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "reclure"
},
"expansion": "reclure",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "reclūdere"
},
"expansion": "Latin reclūdere",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "reclūdō",
"t": "I disclose, I open"
},
"expansion": "reclūdō (“I disclose, I open”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "re-"
},
"expansion": "re-",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "claudō",
"t": "close"
},
"expansion": "claudō (“close”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old French reclus, past participle of reclure, from Latin reclūdere, present active infinitive of reclūdō (“I disclose, I open”), from re- + claudō (“close”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "recluses",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "reclusing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "reclused",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "reclused",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "recluse (third-person singular simple present recluses, present participle reclusing, simple past and past participle reclused)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"to shut; to seclude"
],
"links": [
[
"shut",
"shut"
],
[
"seclude",
"seclude"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) to shut; to seclude"
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɹɪˈkluːs/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɹɛkluːs/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːs"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-recluse.wav",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-recluse2.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-recluse2.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-recluse2.wav.mp3",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"recluse"
],
"word": "recluse"
}
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