See abacus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"english": "This and the Attic sort they used for high lights, for panels none but the marmorean kind, because the marble in it resists acridity of the lime.",
"ref": "77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia XXXIII.56",
"text": "Hoc autem et Attico ad lumina utuntur, ad abacos non nisi marmoroso, quoniam marmor in eo resistit amaritudini calcis.",
"translation": "This and the Attic sort they used for high lights, for panels none but the marmorean kind, because the marble in it resists acridity of the lime.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A painted ceiling or wall panel."
],
"links": [
[
"panel",
"panel"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-2",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"panel"
],
"links": [
[
"panel",
"panel"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-2",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"tray"
],
"links": [
[
"tray",
"tray"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-2",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"calculation in general"
],
"links": [
[
"calculation",
"calculation"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Late Latin) calculation in general"
],
"tags": [
"Late-Latin",
"declension-2",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈa.ba.kʊs]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈaː.ba.kus]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "abacus"
}
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