See balbus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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{
"word": "balbūtiēs"
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"form": "balbā",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"feminine",
"singular"
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},
{
"form": "balbō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
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"form": "balbīs",
"source": "declension",
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"ablative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
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{
"form": "balbe",
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},
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"plural",
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},
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}
],
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}
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.