"glans" meaning in Latin

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Noun

IPA: [ˈɡɫãːs] [Classical-Latin], [ˈɡlans] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Proto-Italic *glānts, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelh₂- (“acorn”). Etymology templates: {{root|la|ine-pro|*gʷelh₂-}}, {{inh|la|itc-pro|*glānts}} Proto-Italic *glānts, {{der|la|ine-pro|*gʷelh₂-||acorn}} Proto-Indo-European *gʷelh₂- (“acorn”) Head templates: {{la-noun|glāns/gland<3>|g=f}} glāns f (genitive glandis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|glāns/gland<3>|gen_pl=glandium/glandum}} Forms: glāns [canonical, feminine], glandis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], glāns [nominative, singular], glandēs [nominative, plural], glandis [genitive, singular], glandium [genitive, plural], glandum [genitive, plural], glandī [dative, singular], glandibus [dative, plural], glandem [accusative, singular], glandēs [accusative, plural], glande [ablative, singular], glandibus [ablative, plural], glāns [singular, vocative], glandēs [plural, vocative], glandō [alternative, obsolete]
  1. (literal) an acorn, nut; any acorn-shaped fruit; a beechnut, chestnut Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-glans-la-noun-2cPtijHl Categories (other): Latin feminine nouns in the third declension, Latin links with manual fragments, Nuts Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the third declension: 23 25 24 29 Disambiguation of Latin links with manual fragments: 28 19 26 26 Disambiguation of Nuts: 47 23 16 15
  2. (transferred sense)
    (weaponry) an acorn-shaped ball of lead or clay, hurled at the enemy
    Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-glans-la-noun-Ljone6hT Categories (other): Weapons, Latin feminine nouns in the third declension, Latin links with manual fragments Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the third declension: 23 25 24 29 Disambiguation of Latin links with manual fragments: 28 19 26 26 Topics: engineering, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, tools, war, weaponry
  3. (transferred sense)
    (New Latin, firearms) a bullet
    Tags: New-Latin, declension-3
    Sense id: en-glans-la-noun-g3bNDaqJ Categories (other): New Latin, Firearms, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin feminine nouns in the third declension, Latin links with manual fragments, Latin links with redundant alt parameters Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 22 30 42 7 Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the third declension: 23 25 24 29 Disambiguation of Latin links with manual fragments: 28 19 26 26 Disambiguation of Latin links with redundant alt parameters: 24 26 36 14 Topics: engineering, firearms, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, tools, war, weaponry
  4. (transferred sense)
    (anatomy) the glans penis
    Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-glans-la-noun-JE5MqMyo Categories (other): Anatomy, Latin feminine nouns in the third declension, Latin links with manual fragments Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the third declension: 23 25 24 29 Disambiguation of Latin links with manual fragments: 28 19 26 26 Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: glandārius, glandimer, glandium, glandula, iūglāns
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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "glandārius"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "glandimer"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "glandium"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "glandula"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "iūglāns"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Vulgar Latin",
      "lang_code": "la",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "*glandinis"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Vulgar Latin",
      "lang_code": "la",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "*glandinem"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "gland"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "glans"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "gland"
    },
    {
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "glande"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Galician",
      "lang_code": "gl",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "glande"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Interlingua",
      "lang_code": "ia",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "glande"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "glande"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "glande"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "gland"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "glánda",
      "word": "гла́нда"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "glande"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Translingual",
      "lang_code": "mul",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "Glandirana"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*gʷelh₂-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "*glānts"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *glānts",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*gʷelh₂-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "acorn"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *gʷelh₂- (“acorn”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Italic *glānts, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelh₂- (“acorn”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "glāns",
      "head_nr": 1,
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glandis",
      "head_nr": 1,
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glāns",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glandēs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glandis",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glandium",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glandum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glandī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glandibus",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glandem",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glandēs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glande",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glandibus",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glāns",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glandēs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glandō",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "glāns/gland<3>",
        "g": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "glāns f (genitive glandis); third declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "glāns/gland<3>",
        "gen_pl": "glandium/glandum"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "23 25 24 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin feminine nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "28 19 26 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 23 16 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Nuts",
          "orig": "la:Nuts",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Translation by James B. Greenough\nWinter is come: in olive-mills they bruise\nThe Sicyonian berry; acorn-cheered\nThe swine troop homeward; woods their arbutes yield;\nSo, various fruit sheds Autumn, and high up\nOn sunny rocks the mellowing vintage bakes.",
          "ref": "c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 2.519",
          "roman": "mitis in apricis coquitur vindemia saxis.",
          "text": "Venit hiems: teritur Sicyonia baca trapetis,\nglande sues laeti redeunt, dant arbuta silvae;\net varios ponit fetus autumnus et alte",
          "translation": "Translation by James B. Greenough\nWinter is come: in olive-mills they bruise\nThe Sicyonian berry; acorn-cheered\nThe swine troop homeward; woods their arbutes yield;\nSo, various fruit sheds Autumn, and high up\nOn sunny rocks the mellowing vintage bakes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an acorn, nut; any acorn-shaped fruit; a beechnut, chestnut"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "id": "en-glans-la-noun-2cPtijHl",
      "links": [
        [
          "acorn",
          "acorn"
        ],
        [
          "nut",
          "nut"
        ],
        [
          "fruit",
          "fruit"
        ],
        [
          "beechnut",
          "beechnut"
        ],
        [
          "chestnut",
          "chestnut"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "literal",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literal) an acorn, nut; any acorn-shaped fruit; a beechnut, chestnut"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Weapons",
          "orig": "la:Weapons",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 25 24 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin feminine nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "28 19 26 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an acorn-shaped ball of lead or clay, hurled at the enemy"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "id": "en-glans-la-noun-Ljone6hT",
      "links": [
        [
          "weaponry",
          "weaponry"
        ],
        [
          "acorn",
          "acorn"
        ],
        [
          "ball",
          "ball"
        ],
        [
          "lead",
          "lead"
        ],
        [
          "clay",
          "clay"
        ],
        [
          "hurl",
          "hurl"
        ],
        [
          "enemy",
          "enemy"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "transferred sense",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transferred sense)",
        "(weaponry) an acorn-shaped ball of lead or clay, hurled at the enemy"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "engineering",
        "government",
        "military",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "politics",
        "tools",
        "war",
        "weaponry"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "New Latin",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Firearms",
          "orig": "la:Firearms",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "22 30 42 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 25 24 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin feminine nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "28 19 26 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "24 26 36 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a bullet"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "id": "en-glans-la-noun-g3bNDaqJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "firearm",
          "firearm"
        ],
        [
          "bullet",
          "bullet"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "transferred sense",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transferred sense)",
        "(New Latin, firearms) a bullet"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "New-Latin",
        "declension-3"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "engineering",
        "firearms",
        "government",
        "military",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "politics",
        "tools",
        "war",
        "weaponry"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Anatomy",
          "orig": "la:Anatomy",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 25 24 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin feminine nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "28 19 26 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the glans penis"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "id": "en-glans-la-noun-JE5MqMyo",
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "glans penis",
          "glans penis"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "transferred sense",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transferred sense)",
        "(anatomy) the glans penis"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈɡɫãːs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈɡlans]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "glans"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Latin 1-syllable words",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin feminine nouns",
    "Latin feminine nouns in the third declension",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin links with manual fragments",
    "Latin links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
    "Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷelh₂-",
    "Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Latin third declension nouns",
    "Pages with 10 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Requests for quotations in Latin",
    "la:Nuts"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "glandārius"
    },
    {
      "word": "glandimer"
    },
    {
      "word": "glandium"
    },
    {
      "word": "glandula"
    },
    {
      "word": "iūglāns"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Vulgar Latin",
      "lang_code": "la",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "*glandinis"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Vulgar Latin",
      "lang_code": "la",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "*glandinem"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "gland"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "glans"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "gland"
    },
    {
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "glande"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Galician",
      "lang_code": "gl",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "glande"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Interlingua",
      "lang_code": "ia",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "glande"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "glande"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "glande"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "gland"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "glánda",
      "word": "гла́нда"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "glande"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Translingual",
      "lang_code": "mul",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "Glandirana"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
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        "3": "*gʷelh₂-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "*glānts"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*gʷelh₂-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "acorn"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *gʷelh₂- (“acorn”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Italic *glānts, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelh₂- (“acorn”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "glāns",
      "head_nr": 1,
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glandis",
      "head_nr": 1,
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glāns",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glandēs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glandis",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glandium",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glandum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glandī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glandibus",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glandem",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glandēs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glande",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glandibus",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glāns",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glandēs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glandō",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "glāns/gland<3>",
        "g": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "glāns f (genitive glandis); third declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "glāns/gland<3>",
        "gen_pl": "glandium/glandum"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Translation by James B. Greenough\nWinter is come: in olive-mills they bruise\nThe Sicyonian berry; acorn-cheered\nThe swine troop homeward; woods their arbutes yield;\nSo, various fruit sheds Autumn, and high up\nOn sunny rocks the mellowing vintage bakes.",
          "ref": "c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 2.519",
          "roman": "mitis in apricis coquitur vindemia saxis.",
          "text": "Venit hiems: teritur Sicyonia baca trapetis,\nglande sues laeti redeunt, dant arbuta silvae;\net varios ponit fetus autumnus et alte",
          "translation": "Translation by James B. Greenough\nWinter is come: in olive-mills they bruise\nThe Sicyonian berry; acorn-cheered\nThe swine troop homeward; woods their arbutes yield;\nSo, various fruit sheds Autumn, and high up\nOn sunny rocks the mellowing vintage bakes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an acorn, nut; any acorn-shaped fruit; a beechnut, chestnut"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "links": [
        [
          "acorn",
          "acorn"
        ],
        [
          "nut",
          "nut"
        ],
        [
          "fruit",
          "fruit"
        ],
        [
          "beechnut",
          "beechnut"
        ],
        [
          "chestnut",
          "chestnut"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "literal",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literal) an acorn, nut; any acorn-shaped fruit; a beechnut, chestnut"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with transferred senses",
        "la:Weapons"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an acorn-shaped ball of lead or clay, hurled at the enemy"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "links": [
        [
          "weaponry",
          "weaponry"
        ],
        [
          "acorn",
          "acorn"
        ],
        [
          "ball",
          "ball"
        ],
        [
          "lead",
          "lead"
        ],
        [
          "clay",
          "clay"
        ],
        [
          "hurl",
          "hurl"
        ],
        [
          "enemy",
          "enemy"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "transferred sense",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transferred sense)",
        "(weaponry) an acorn-shaped ball of lead or clay, hurled at the enemy"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "engineering",
        "government",
        "military",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "politics",
        "tools",
        "war",
        "weaponry"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with transferred senses",
        "New Latin",
        "la:Firearms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a bullet"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "links": [
        [
          "firearm",
          "firearm"
        ],
        [
          "bullet",
          "bullet"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "transferred sense",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transferred sense)",
        "(New Latin, firearms) a bullet"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "New-Latin",
        "declension-3"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "engineering",
        "firearms",
        "government",
        "military",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "politics",
        "tools",
        "war",
        "weaponry"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with transferred senses",
        "la:Anatomy"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the glans penis"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "glans penis",
          "glans penis"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "transferred sense",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transferred sense)",
        "(anatomy) the glans penis"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈɡɫãːs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈɡlans]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "glans"
}

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