See -undus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"gerundive",
"Appendix:Glossary#gerundive"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"Old Latin or archaic ending of the future passive participle (gerundive) of third- and fourth-conjugation verbs; also classically retained in the following legal set phrase:"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"declension-2",
"morpheme",
"suffix"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ʊn.dʊs]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[un.dus]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "-undus"
}
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