See peior in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Italo-Romance:"
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"text": "North Italian:"
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"text": "Gallo-Romance:"
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}
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"text": "Occitan: pièger, pieg"
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"text": "Ibero-Romance:"
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"1": "pt",
"2": "pior"
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"expansion": "Portuguese: pior",
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"text": "Portuguese: pior"
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"2": "peor"
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[
"malus",
"malus#Latin"
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},
{
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{
"args": {
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"2": "peggiore"
},
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"name": "desc"
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],
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},
{
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"text": "North Italian:"
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"2": "pêr"
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"text": "Gallo-Romance:"
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"name": "desc"
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"2": "péger"
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"name": "desc"
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"2": "pejor"
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"text": "Ibero-Romance:"
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"Latin terms with Ecclesiastical IPA pronunciation only",
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],
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}
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