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"text": "Padanian:"
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"text": "Old French: mieudre (nominative), meillor (oblique)"
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"text": "Aragonese: millor"
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"text": "Occitan: melhor, milhor"
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"text": "Ibero-Romance:"
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},
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"text": "Portuguese: melhor"
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"ipa": "/ˈme.li.or/",
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"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈme.li.or/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈmɛːlior]",
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}
],
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"text": "Padanian:"
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"text": "Northern Gallo-Romance:"
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"name": "desc"
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"2": "meilleur"
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"text": "Southern Gallo-Romance:"
},
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},
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"name": "desc"
}
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"text": "Aragonese: millor"
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"2": "melhor",
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"text": "Ibero-Romance:"
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"feminine",
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"neuter",
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"neuter",
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"feminine",
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"feminine",
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"neuter",
"singular"
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"vocative"
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"pos": "adj",
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{
"word": "bonus"
},
{
"word": "optimus"
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"categories": [
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"Latin comparative adjectives",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin non-lemma forms",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
"Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
"Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
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{
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[
"bonus",
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],
[
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}
],
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{
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"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈmɛlʲiɔr]",
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"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈme.li.or/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈmɛːlior]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "melior"
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/865",
"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: melior/Latin 'Number' base_tags=set()",
"path": [
"melior"
],
"section": "Latin",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "melior",
"trace": ""
}
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