See dossum in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "Colloquial form. For the /rs/ > /ss/, cf. prōsum, rūsum, sūsum (with subsequent shortening of /ss/ after long vowels) and the Romance descendants of deorsum or ursus.",
"forms": [
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"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
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},
{
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"source": "declension",
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},
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},
{
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"source": "declension",
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"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "dossī",
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},
{
"form": "dossōrum",
"source": "declension",
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"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "dossō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "dossīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "dossum",
"source": "declension",
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"singular"
]
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{
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"source": "declension",
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},
{
"form": "dossō",
"source": "declension",
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"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "dossum",
"source": "declension",
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},
{
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"lang": "Latin",
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"pos": "noun",
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"word": "dorsum"
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"parents": [],
"source": "w"
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{
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"english": "And in this way, some [say] \"dossum\" with two s's instead of \"dorsum\" with an r to sound gentler. But to all, r is a sunk letter in \"rusum\" and \"retrosum\".",
"ref": "[98–138 CE, Velius Longus, edited by Henricus Keilius, Liber de orthographia (Grammatici Latini; VII), published 1880, page 79, lines 4–6:",
"text": "sic et dossum per duo s quam per r dorsum quidam ut lenius enuntiaverunt. ac tota r littera sublata est in eo quod est rusum et retrosum.",
"translation": "And in this way, some [say] \"dossum\" with two s's instead of \"dorsum\" with an r to sound gentler. But to all, r is a sunk letter in \"rusum\" and \"retrosum\".",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"alternative form of dorsum (“back”)"
],
"id": "en-dossum-la-noun-CXiQFQjs",
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[
"dorsum",
"dorsum#Latin"
]
],
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"(proscribed) alternative form of dorsum (“back”)"
],
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],
"word": "dossum"
}
{
"etymology_text": "Colloquial form. For the /rs/ > /ss/, cf. prōsum, rūsum, sūsum (with subsequent shortening of /ss/ after long vowels) and the Romance descendants of deorsum or ursus.",
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{
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},
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{
"form": "dossum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "dossa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "dossī",
"source": "declension",
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"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "dossōrum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
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},
{
"form": "dossō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "dossīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "dossum",
"source": "declension",
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"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "dossa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "dossō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "dossīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "dossum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
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},
{
"form": "dossa",
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"Latin second declension nouns",
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35
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"english": "And in this way, some [say] \"dossum\" with two s's instead of \"dorsum\" with an r to sound gentler. But to all, r is a sunk letter in \"rusum\" and \"retrosum\".",
"ref": "[98–138 CE, Velius Longus, edited by Henricus Keilius, Liber de orthographia (Grammatici Latini; VII), published 1880, page 79, lines 4–6:",
"text": "sic et dossum per duo s quam per r dorsum quidam ut lenius enuntiaverunt. ac tota r littera sublata est in eo quod est rusum et retrosum.",
"translation": "And in this way, some [say] \"dossum\" with two s's instead of \"dorsum\" with an r to sound gentler. But to all, r is a sunk letter in \"rusum\" and \"retrosum\".",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"alternative form of dorsum (“back”)"
],
"links": [
[
"dorsum",
"dorsum#Latin"
]
],
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"(proscribed) alternative form of dorsum (“back”)"
],
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"declension-2",
"neuter",
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]
}
],
"word": "dossum"
}
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