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{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_text": "Perfect active participle of amplector (“surround; grasp”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "amplexa",
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexum",
"tags": [
"neuter"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-adecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexōrum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexārum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexōrum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"feminine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexam",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"feminine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexōs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexās",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"feminine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexā",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"feminine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexe",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "amplexus"
},
"expansion": "amplexus (feminine amplexa, neuter amplexum); first/second-declension participle",
"name": "la-part"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "amplexus"
},
"name": "la-adecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "6 7 4 10 29 29 7 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 10 6 10 24 24 9 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin terms suffixed with -tus (action noun)",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
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{
"extra": "surround; grasp",
"word": "amplector"
}
],
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"having surrounded, encircled, entwined"
],
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"links": [
[
"surrounded",
"surrounded"
],
[
"encircled",
"encircled"
],
[
"entwined",
"entwined"
]
],
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"active",
"declension-1",
"declension-2",
"form-of",
"participle",
"perfect"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "6 7 4 10 29 29 7 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
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},
{
"_dis": "8 10 6 10 24 24 9 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin terms suffixed with -tus (action noun)",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
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{
"extra": "surround; grasp",
"word": "amplector"
}
],
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"having embraced, clasped, grasped"
],
"id": "en-amplexus-la-verb-A5a2znYV",
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[
"embraced",
"embraced"
],
[
"clasped",
"clasped"
],
[
"grasped",
"grasped"
]
],
"tags": [
"active",
"declension-1",
"declension-2",
"form-of",
"participle",
"perfect"
]
},
{
"form_of": [
{
"extra": "surround; grasp",
"word": "amplector"
}
],
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"having esteemed"
],
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"links": [
[
"esteemed",
"esteemed"
]
],
"tags": [
"active",
"declension-1",
"declension-2",
"form-of",
"participle",
"perfect"
]
},
{
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{
"extra": "surround; grasp",
"word": "amplector"
}
],
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"having cherished"
],
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[
"cherished",
"cherished"
]
],
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"active",
"declension-1",
"declension-2",
"form-of",
"participle",
"perfect"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "[amˈpɫɛk.sʊs]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[amˈplɛk.sus]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "amplexus"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"word": "amplexus"
}
],
"etymology_number": 2,
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{
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"2": "amplector",
"3": "-tus",
"id2": "action noun",
"pos2": "forming action nouns"
},
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"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From amplector + -tus (forming action nouns).",
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{
"form": "amplexūs",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
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"tags": [
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]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
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"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexūs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexuum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexuī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexūs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexū",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexūs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "amplexus<4>"
},
"expansion": "amplexus m (genitive amplexūs); fourth declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "amplexus<4>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "15 23 13 19 7 7 8 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"clasp, embrace"
],
"id": "en-amplexus-la-noun-HKH3NfCF",
"links": [
[
"clasp",
"clasp"
],
[
"embrace",
"embrace"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "15 23 13 19 7 7 8 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 10 6 10 24 24 9 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin terms suffixed with -tus (action noun)",
"parents": [],
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}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "It had been the habit of one of your serving-women, [daughter] of Cadmus, often to go under the embraces of your husband.\n(The daughter of Cadmus is Ino (mythology).)",
"ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.553–554",
"roman": "saepe sub amplexūs coniugis īre tuī.",
"text": "ūna ministrārum solita est, Cadmēī, tuārum",
"translation": "It had been the habit of one of your serving-women, [daughter] of Cadmus, often to go under the embraces of your husband.\n(The daughter of Cadmus is Ino (mythology).)",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"a loving embrace, caress (mostly in the plural)"
],
"id": "en-amplexus-la-noun-bvoEw4zT",
"links": [
[
"loving",
"loving"
],
[
"embrace",
"embrace"
],
[
"caress",
"caress"
]
],
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"declension-4",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
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"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension",
"parents": [],
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}
],
"glosses": [
"coil"
],
"id": "en-amplexus-la-noun-H-dSMdN2",
"links": [
[
"coil",
"coil"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
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"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
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},
{
"_dis": "15 23 13 19 7 7 8 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"circumference"
],
"id": "en-amplexus-la-noun-LUDUe-D2",
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[
"circumference",
"circumference"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"masculine"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "[amˈpɫɛk.sʊs]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[amˈplɛk.sus]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "amplexus"
}
{
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"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin first and second declension participles",
"Latin fourth declension nouns",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin masculine nouns",
"Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension",
"Latin non-lemma forms",
"Latin nouns",
"Latin participles",
"Latin perfect participles",
"Latin terms suffixed with -tus (action noun)",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_text": "Perfect active participle of amplector (“surround; grasp”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "amplexa",
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexum",
"tags": [
"neuter"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-adecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexōrum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexārum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexōrum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"feminine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexam",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"feminine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexōs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexās",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"feminine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexā",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"feminine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexe",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "amplexus"
},
"expansion": "amplexus (feminine amplexa, neuter amplexum); first/second-declension participle",
"name": "la-part"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "amplexus"
},
"name": "la-adecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"form_of": [
{
"extra": "surround; grasp",
"word": "amplector"
}
],
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"having surrounded, encircled, entwined"
],
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[
"surrounded",
"surrounded"
],
[
"encircled",
"encircled"
],
[
"entwined",
"entwined"
]
],
"tags": [
"active",
"declension-1",
"declension-2",
"form-of",
"participle",
"perfect"
]
},
{
"form_of": [
{
"extra": "surround; grasp",
"word": "amplector"
}
],
"glosses": [
"having embraced, clasped, grasped"
],
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[
"embraced",
"embraced"
],
[
"clasped",
"clasped"
],
[
"grasped",
"grasped"
]
],
"tags": [
"active",
"declension-1",
"declension-2",
"form-of",
"participle",
"perfect"
]
},
{
"form_of": [
{
"extra": "surround; grasp",
"word": "amplector"
}
],
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"having esteemed"
],
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[
"esteemed",
"esteemed"
]
],
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"active",
"declension-1",
"declension-2",
"form-of",
"participle",
"perfect"
]
},
{
"form_of": [
{
"extra": "surround; grasp",
"word": "amplector"
}
],
"glosses": [
"having cherished"
],
"links": [
[
"cherished",
"cherished"
]
],
"tags": [
"active",
"declension-1",
"declension-2",
"form-of",
"participle",
"perfect"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[amˈpɫɛk.sʊs]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[amˈplɛk.sus]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "amplexus"
}
{
"categories": [
"Latin 3-syllable words",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin fourth declension nouns",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin masculine nouns",
"Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension",
"Latin nouns",
"Latin terms suffixed with -tus (action noun)",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"word": "amplexus"
}
],
"etymology_number": 2,
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{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "amplector",
"3": "-tus",
"id2": "action noun",
"pos2": "forming action nouns"
},
"expansion": "amplector + -tus (forming action nouns)",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From amplector + -tus (forming action nouns).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "amplexūs",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexūs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexūs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexuum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexuī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexūs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexū",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "amplexūs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "amplexus<4>"
},
"expansion": "amplexus m (genitive amplexūs); fourth declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "amplexus<4>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"clasp, embrace"
],
"links": [
[
"clasp",
"clasp"
],
[
"embrace",
"embrace"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "It had been the habit of one of your serving-women, [daughter] of Cadmus, often to go under the embraces of your husband.\n(The daughter of Cadmus is Ino (mythology).)",
"ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.553–554",
"roman": "saepe sub amplexūs coniugis īre tuī.",
"text": "ūna ministrārum solita est, Cadmēī, tuārum",
"translation": "It had been the habit of one of your serving-women, [daughter] of Cadmus, often to go under the embraces of your husband.\n(The daughter of Cadmus is Ino (mythology).)",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a loving embrace, caress (mostly in the plural)"
],
"links": [
[
"loving",
"loving"
],
[
"embrace",
"embrace"
],
[
"caress",
"caress"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"coil"
],
"links": [
[
"coil",
"coil"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"circumference"
],
"links": [
[
"circumference",
"circumference"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[amˈpɫɛk.sʊs]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[amˈplɛk.sus]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "amplexus"
}
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