"-as" meaning in Esperanto

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  "etymology_text": "The Esperanto suffixes -as, -is, -os, -us are related, and appear to have been inspired by previous language projects:\n: This play of vowels is not an original idea of Zamenhof's: -as, -is, -os are found for the three tenses of the infinitive in Faiguet's system of 1765; -a, -i, -o without a consonant are used like Z's -as, -is, -os by Rudelle (1858); Courtonne in 1885 had -am, -im, -om in the same values, and the similarity with Esperanto is here even more perfect than in the other projects, as -um corresponds to Z's -us. —An International Language (1928)\nThe vowel of -as is likely cognate with the Latin present, as in amat (“s/he loves”), and the corresponding present infinitive amāre, permitting the natural (for a European) -ant ending. i could come from past tense in Latin ami, amisti.",
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      "args": {
        "1": "eo",
        "2": "suffix"
      },
      "expansion": "-as",
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    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "as"
  ],
  "lang": "Esperanto",
  "lang_code": "eo",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Esperanto 1894 Universala Vortaro",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Esperanto BRO1",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin links with redundant target parameters",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant target parameters",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 19 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Words approved by the Akademio de Esperanto",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "ending of the present tense in verbs."
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "id": "en--as-eo-suffix-W86Lfr5p",
      "links": [
        [
          "ending",
          "ending#English"
        ],
        [
          "present tense",
          "present tense#English"
        ],
        [
          "verb",
          "verb#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[as]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-as"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 19 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "The Esperanto suffixes -as, -is, -os, -us are related, and appear to have been inspired by previous language projects:\n: This play of vowels is not an original idea of Zamenhof's: -as, -is, -os are found for the three tenses of the infinitive in Faiguet's system of 1765; -a, -i, -o without a consonant are used like Z's -as, -is, -os by Rudelle (1858); Courtonne in 1885 had -am, -im, -om in the same values, and the similarity with Esperanto is here even more perfect than in the other projects, as -um corresponds to Z's -us. —An International Language (1928)\nThe vowel of -as is likely cognate with the Latin present, as in amat (“s/he loves”), and the corresponding present infinitive amāre, permitting the natural (for a European) -ant ending. i could come from past tense in Latin ami, amisti.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "eo",
        "2": "suffix"
      },
      "expansion": "-as",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "as"
  ],
  "lang": "Esperanto",
  "lang_code": "eo",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Esperanto 1894 Universala Vortaro",
        "Esperanto BRO1",
        "Esperanto entries with incorrect language header",
        "Esperanto lemmas",
        "Esperanto suffixes",
        "Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Esperanto terms with audio links",
        "Latin links with redundant target parameters",
        "Pages with 19 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Words approved by the Akademio de Esperanto"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "ending of the present tense in verbs."
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "links": [
        [
          "ending",
          "ending#English"
        ],
        [
          "present tense",
          "present tense#English"
        ],
        [
          "verb",
          "verb#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[as]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-as"
}

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  "called_from": "page/1713/20221215",
  "msg": "later head without list of senses,template node #, -as/Esperanto",
  "path": [
    "-as"
  ],
  "section": "Esperanto",
  "subsection": "suffix",
  "title": "-as",
  "trace": ""
}