See pilule in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "se dorer la pilule"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "pilulier"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "pilulă"
},
{
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"roman": "piljulja",
"word": "пилюля"
}
],
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"2": "la-med",
"3": "pilula"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Medieval Latin pilula",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "pillola"
},
"expansion": "Italian pillola",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "píldora"
},
"expansion": "Spanish píldora",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Medieval Latin pilula, apparently first attested in the fourteenth century, in turn inherited from the Classical Latin, attested in the medical sense in Pliny. Note that Italian pillola and Spanish píldora are widely regarded as inheritances, not borrowings.",
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"tags": [
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}
],
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},
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}
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"pos": "noun",
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"pill (small object to be swallowed)"
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11,
17
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0,
6
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"text": "pilule du lendemain",
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"the contraceptive pill"
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9,
15
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"tags": [
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],
"text": "dorer la pilule",
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"an unpleasant situation or piece of news"
],
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],
[
"news",
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]
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"(informal) an unpleasant situation or piece of news"
],
"tags": [
"error-lua-exec",
"feminine",
"informal"
]
}
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"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French feminine nouns",
"French lemmas",
"French nouns",
"French terms borrowed from Medieval Latin",
"French terms derived from Medieval Latin",
"French terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries"
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"derived": [
{
"word": "se dorer la pilule"
},
{
"word": "pilulier"
}
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"lang_code": "ro",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "pilulă"
},
{
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"lang_code": "ru",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
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"word": "пилюля"
}
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "pillola"
},
"expansion": "Italian pillola",
"name": "cog"
},
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"1": "es",
"2": "píldora"
},
"expansion": "Spanish píldora",
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}
],
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"forms": [
{
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"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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},
"expansion": "pilule f (plural pilules)",
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}
],
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{
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"pill (small object to be swallowed)"
],
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[
"pill",
"pill"
]
],
"tags": [
"error-lua-exec",
"feminine"
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11,
17
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"type": "example"
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{
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0,
6
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],
"tags": [
"collocation"
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"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"the contraceptive pill"
],
"links": [
[
"contraceptive",
"contraceptive"
],
[
"pill",
"pill"
]
],
"tags": [
"error-lua-exec",
"feminine"
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},
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"French terms with collocations",
"Requests for translations of French usage examples"
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"examples": [
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10,
16
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16,
22
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],
"tags": [
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"type": "example"
},
{
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9,
15
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],
"tags": [
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"text": "dorer la pilule",
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"news"
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"informal"
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"word": "pilule"
}
Download raw JSONL data for pilule meaning in French (3.8kB)
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"msg": "LUA error in #invoke('R:it:Treccani', 'create') parent ('Template:R:it:Treccani', {1: 'pillola'})",
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"#invoke",
"#invoke"
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"section": "French",
"subsection": "",
"title": "pilule",
"trace": "'int' object is not subscriptable"
}
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"path": [
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"#invoke",
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"title": "pilule",
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