"abacus" meaning in Latin

See abacus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ˈa.ba.kʊs] [Classical-Latin], [ˈaː.ba.kus] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄβαξ (ábax, “board”). Etymology templates: {{der|la|grc|ἄβαξ||board}} Ancient Greek ἄβαξ (ábax, “board”) Head templates: {{la-noun|abacus<2>}} abacus m (genitive abacī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|abacus<2>}} Forms: abacī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], abacus [nominative, singular], abacī [nominative, plural], abacī [genitive, singular], abacōrum [genitive, plural], abacō [dative, singular], abacīs [dative, plural], abacum [accusative, singular], abacōs [accusative, plural], abacō [ablative, singular], abacīs [ablative, plural], abace [singular, vocative], abacī [plural, vocative], abax [alternative]
  1. square board Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-abacus-la-noun-GyPvkBNK
  2. sideboard Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-abacus-la-noun-qZnjEMrO Categories (other): Latin masculine nouns in the second declension, Furniture, Tools Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 10 14 10 17 9 11 11 17 Disambiguation of Furniture: 4 52 4 11 16 4 4 5 Disambiguation of Tools: 4 34 25 18 9 4 4 4
  3. counting board, abacus Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-abacus-la-noun-SHNV-sdo Categories (other): Latin masculine nouns in the second declension, Mathematics Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 10 14 10 17 9 11 11 17 Disambiguation of Mathematics: 4 4 28 11 18 4 4 28
  4. gaming board Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-abacus-la-noun-RJtsq4Y9 Categories (other): Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin masculine nouns in the second declension, Board games, Mathematics Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 2 2 2 8 12 24 1 4 2 38 2 1 1 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 1 1 8 13 26 1 2 1 42 1 1 1 1 Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 1 9 3 72 8 1 1 5 Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 10 14 10 17 9 11 11 17 Disambiguation of Board games: 8 8 9 60 3 2 2 9 Disambiguation of Mathematics: 4 4 28 11 18 4 4 28
  5. A painted ceiling or wall panel. Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-abacus-la-noun-CljWiENH Categories (other): Mathematics Disambiguation of Mathematics: 4 4 28 11 18 4 4 28
  6. panel Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-abacus-la-noun-Mg4A5zp9 Categories (other): Latin masculine nouns in the second declension Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 10 14 10 17 9 11 11 17
  7. tray Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-abacus-la-noun-rZoMqxLu Categories (other): Latin masculine nouns in the second declension Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 10 14 10 17 9 11 11 17
  8. (Late Latin) calculation in general Tags: Late-Latin, declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-abacus-la-noun-q-qCzzOH Categories (other): Latin masculine nouns in the second declension, Mathematics Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 10 14 10 17 9 11 11 17 Disambiguation of Mathematics: 4 4 28 11 18 4 4 28

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "expansion": "→ Galician: ábaco",
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      "text": "→ German: Abakus"
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            "2": "abaco",
            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ Italian: abaco",
          "name": "desc"
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      "text": "→ Italian: abaco"
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          "expansion": "→ Malay: abakus",
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      "text": "→ Malay: abakus"
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          "expansion": "→ Norwegian Bokmål: abakus",
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      "text": "→ Norwegian Bokmål: abakus"
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      "text": "→ Norwegian Nynorsk: abakus"
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            "1": "pt",
            "2": "ábaco",
            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ Portuguese: ábaco",
          "name": "desc"
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      "text": "→ Portuguese: ábaco"
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            "bor": "1"
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        "plural"
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      "source": "declension",
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        "accusative",
        "plural"
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
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      "source": "declension",
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        "square board"
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          "board"
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          "_dis": "4 34 25 18 9 4 4 4",
          "kind": "other",
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          "name": "Tools",
          "orig": "la:Tools",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
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        {
          "english": "From this place he removed all the sideboard's dishes, since they had been exposed.",
          "ref": "70 BCE, Cicero, In Verrem II.4.35",
          "text": "Ab hoc abaci vasa omnia, ut exposita fuerunt, abstulit."
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          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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        {
          "english": "...nor the man who has the wit to laugh at the figures on the counting board and the cones drawn in sand, ready to go off in ecstasies if a prostitute pulls a Cynic by the beard.",
          "ref": "c. 62 CE, Persius, Saturae I.131",
          "text": "...nec qui abaco numeros et secto in pulvere metas / scit risisse vafer, multum gaudere paratus, / si cynico barbam petulans nonaria vellat."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "counting board, abacus"
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      "id": "en-abacus-la-noun-SHNV-sdo",
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          "counting board"
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        [
          "abacus",
          "abacus#English"
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        "masculine"
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      "categories": [
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          "_dis": "2 2 2 8 12 24 1 4 2 38 2 1 1 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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        {
          "_dis": "1 1 1 8 13 26 1 2 1 42 1 1 1 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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        {
          "_dis": "1 9 3 72 8 1 1 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "10 14 10 17 9 11 11 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 8 9 60 3 2 2 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Board games",
          "orig": "la:Board games",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "4 4 28 11 18 4 4 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Mathematics",
          "orig": "la:Mathematics",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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        {
          "english": "But in the early stages of his rule he used to play every day on a gaming board with ivory chariots. He would also travel from his retreat to the Circus games, even the least important ones, at first in secret and then openly. As a result, no one was in any doubt that he would be present in Rome that day at least.",
          "ref": "c. 69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum Neronis XXII.period1",
          "text": "Sed cum inter initia imperii eburneis quadrigis cotidie in abaco luderet, ad omnis etiam minimos circenses e secessu commeabat, primo clam, deinde propalam, ut nemini dubium esset eo die utique affuturum."
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      "id": "en-abacus-la-noun-RJtsq4Y9",
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          "gaming board"
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        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
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    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "4 4 28 11 18 4 4 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Mathematics",
          "orig": "la:Mathematics",
          "parents": [],
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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": "c. 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."
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        "A painted ceiling or wall panel."
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          "panel"
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
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          "panel"
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        "masculine"
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
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        "masculine"
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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        {
          "_dis": "4 4 28 11 18 4 4 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Mathematics",
          "orig": "la:Mathematics",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
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        "(Late Latin) calculation in general"
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        "Late-Latin",
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
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      "ipa": "[ˈa.ba.kʊs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
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    {
      "ipa": "[ˈaː.ba.kus]",
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    }
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}
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    "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin second declension nouns",
    "Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
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          "expansion": "Italian: abbaco (regional)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: abbaco (regional)"
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    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "àbac",
            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ Catalan: àbac",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Catalan: àbac"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "abacus",
            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ English: abacus",
          "name": "desc"
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      ],
      "text": "→ English: abacus"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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            "2": "abako",
            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ Esperanto: abako",
          "name": "desc"
        }
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      "text": "→ Esperanto: abako"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "abaque",
            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ French: abaque",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ French: abaque"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "abac",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Romanian: abac",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Romanian: abac"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gl",
            "2": "ábaco",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Galician: ábaco",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Galician: ábaco"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "de",
            "2": "Abakus",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ German: Abakus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ German: Abakus"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ga",
            "2": "abacas",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Irish: abacas",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Irish: abacas"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "abaco",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Italian: abaco",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Italian: abaco"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ms",
            "2": "abakus",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Malay: abakus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Malay: abakus"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nb",
            "2": "abakus",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Norwegian Bokmål: abakus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Norwegian Bokmål: abakus"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nn",
            "2": "abakus",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Norwegian Nynorsk: abakus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Norwegian Nynorsk: abakus"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "ábaco",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Portuguese: ábaco",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Portuguese: ábaco"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ru",
            "2": "аба́к",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Russian: аба́к (abák)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Russian: аба́к (abák)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "ábaco",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: ábaco",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: ábaco"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "ἄβαξ",
        "4": "",
        "5": "board"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek ἄβαξ (ábax, “board”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek ἄβαξ (ábax, “board”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "abacī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "abacus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "abacī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "abacī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "abacōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "abacō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "abacīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "abacum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "abacōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "abacō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "abacīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "abace",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "abacī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "abax",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "abacus<2>"
      },
      "expansion": "abacus m (genitive abacī); second declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "abacus<2>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "square board"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "square",
          "square"
        ],
        [
          "board",
          "board"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "From this place he removed all the sideboard's dishes, since they had been exposed.",
          "ref": "70 BCE, Cicero, In Verrem II.4.35",
          "text": "Ab hoc abaci vasa omnia, ut exposita fuerunt, abstulit."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sideboard"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sideboard",
          "sideboard"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "...nor the man who has the wit to laugh at the figures on the counting board and the cones drawn in sand, ready to go off in ecstasies if a prostitute pulls a Cynic by the beard.",
          "ref": "c. 62 CE, Persius, Saturae I.131",
          "text": "...nec qui abaco numeros et secto in pulvere metas / scit risisse vafer, multum gaudere paratus, / si cynico barbam petulans nonaria vellat."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "counting board, abacus"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "counting board",
          "counting board"
        ],
        [
          "abacus",
          "abacus#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "But in the early stages of his rule he used to play every day on a gaming board with ivory chariots. He would also travel from his retreat to the Circus games, even the least important ones, at first in secret and then openly. As a result, no one was in any doubt that he would be present in Rome that day at least.",
          "ref": "c. 69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum Neronis XXII.period1",
          "text": "Sed cum inter initia imperii eburneis quadrigis cotidie in abaco luderet, ad omnis etiam minimos circenses e secessu commeabat, primo clam, deinde propalam, ut nemini dubium esset eo die utique affuturum."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "gaming board"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "gaming board",
          "gaming board"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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": "c. 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."
        }
      ],
      "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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