See medulla in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"lang_code": "oc-lan",
"word": "miolha"
},
{
"lang": "Limousin",
"lang_code": "oc-lim",
"word": "meula"
},
{
"lang": "Limousin",
"lang_code": "oc-lim",
"word": "meulha"
},
{
"lang": "Provençal",
"lang_code": "oc-pro",
"word": "mesola"
},
{
"lang": "Provençal",
"lang_code": "oc-pro",
"word": "mevola"
},
{
"lang": "Provençal",
"lang_code": "oc-pro",
"word": "meula"
},
{
"lang": "Provençal",
"lang_code": "oc-pro",
"word": "meulha"
},
{
"lang": "Vivaro-Alpine",
"lang_code": "oc-viv",
"word": "mesolha"
},
{
"lang": "Vivaro-Alpine",
"lang_code": "oc-viv",
"word": "mesola"
},
{
"lang": "Vivaro-Alpine",
"lang_code": "oc-viv",
"word": "meulha"
},
{
"lang": "Vivaro-Alpine",
"lang_code": "oc-viv",
"word": "miola"
},
{
"lang": "Vivaro-Alpine",
"lang_code": "oc-viv",
"word": "meula"
}
],
"lang": "Occitan",
"lang_code": "oc"
}
],
"lang": "Occitano-Romance",
"lang_code": "unknown"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Aragonese",
"lang_code": "an",
"word": "miolla"
},
{
"lang": "Aragonese",
"lang_code": "an",
"word": "medolla"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Asturian",
"lang_code": "ast",
"word": "megolla"
},
{
"lang": "Asturian",
"lang_code": "ast",
"word": "migolla"
},
{
"lang": "Asturian",
"lang_code": "ast",
"word": "meolla"
},
{
"lang": "Asturian",
"lang_code": "ast",
"word": "miolla"
},
{
"lang": "Leonese",
"lang_code": "roa-leo",
"word": "megolla"
},
{
"lang": "Leonese",
"lang_code": "roa-leo",
"word": "migolla"
},
{
"lang": "Leonese",
"lang_code": "roa-leo",
"word": "miolla"
},
{
"lang": "Mirandese",
"lang_code": "mwl",
"word": "miolha"
}
],
"lang": "Old Leonese",
"lang_code": "roa-ole"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"word": "miola"
},
{
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"word": "mola"
},
{
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"word": "meola"
},
{
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"raw_tags": [
"Northern Portugal"
],
"word": "miola"
}
],
"lang": "Old Galician-Portuguese",
"lang_code": "roa-opt",
"word": "*meola"
}
],
"lang": "Ibero-Romance",
"lang_code": "unknown"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "medulla"
},
{
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "medul·la"
},
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "medulla"
},
{
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "médulla"
},
{
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "medula"
},
{
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "medula"
},
{
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "médula"
}
],
"lang": "Borrowings",
"lang_code": "unknown"
}
],
"etymology_links": [
[
"medius",
"medius#Latin"
],
[
"*mosgʰos",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/mosgʰos"
],
[
"*smérus",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/smérus"
],
[
"merīdiēs",
"meridies#Latin"
]
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "la"
},
"expansion": "Uncertain",
"name": "uncertain"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "medius",
"t": "middle"
},
"expansion": "Latin medius (“middle”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*mosgʰos",
"t": "brain, marrow"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰos (“brain, marrow”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "",
"4": "*smer-u-lo-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *smer-u-lo-",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Uncertain. Traditionally compared to Latin medius (“middle”), or Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰos (“brain, marrow”). De Vaan mentions neither of these theories, and instead prefers a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *smer-u-lo-, from *smérus (“grease, marrow”), with the irregular change from *-r- > -d- resulting from hypercorrection similar to that of *-d- > -r- in merīdiēs (“midday”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "medullae",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "medulla",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "medullae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "medullae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "medullārum",
"links": [
[
"medullārum",
"medullarum#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "medullae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "medullīs",
"links": [
[
"medullīs",
"medullis#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "medullam",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "medullās",
"links": [
[
"medullās",
"medullas#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "medullā",
"links": [
[
"medullā",
"medulla#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "medullīs",
"links": [
[
"medullīs",
"medullis#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "medulla",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "medullae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "medulla<1>"
},
"expansion": "medulla f (genitive medullae); first declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "medulla<1>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"la:Anatomy"
],
"glosses": [
"bone marrow"
],
"links": [
[
"anatomy",
"anatomy"
],
[
"bone",
"bone"
],
[
"marrow",
"marrow"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(anatomy) bone marrow"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine"
],
"topics": [
"anatomy",
"medicine",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "“So that a fire far more blazing may burn in my soft marrow.”",
"ref": "c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, 45 15-16",
"roman": "ignis mollibus ārdet in medullīs.”",
"text": "“Ut multō mihi maior ācriorque",
"translation": "“So that a fire far more blazing may burn in my soft marrow.”",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "The flames consume her tender marrow all the while, and the silent wound dwells within her heart.",
"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.66-67",
"roman": "intereā, et tacitum vīvit sub pectore volnus.",
"text": "[...] Ēst mollis flamma medullās",
"translation": "The flames consume her tender marrow all the while, and the silent wound dwells within her heart.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"as the subjective location of the intense inner physical sensation of a heightened emotion, such as erotic passion"
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) as the subjective location of the intense inner physical sensation of a heightened emotion, such as erotic passion"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine",
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[mɛˈdʊl.la]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[meˈdul.la]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "medulla"
}
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