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}
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"word": "pio"
},
{
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{
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}
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"2": "itc-pro",
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"4": "*puHyós",
"5": "purifying"
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"tags": [
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{
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]
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"tags": [
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]
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{
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"tags": [
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{
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{
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"source": "declension",
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{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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{
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"source": "declension",
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"nominative",
"singular"
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},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"nominative",
"singular"
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},
{
"form": "pium",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"nominative",
"singular"
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},
{
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"source": "declension",
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"nominative",
"plural"
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},
{
"form": "piae",
"source": "declension",
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"feminine",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
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"neuter",
"nominative",
"plural"
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},
{
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"source": "declension",
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"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "piae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
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{
"form": "piī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
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{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
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{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
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{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "piae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"feminine",
"singular"
]
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{
"form": "piō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
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{
"form": "piīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "pium",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "piam",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"feminine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "pium",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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"neuter",
"singular"
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"source": "declension",
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"accusative",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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"feminine",
"plural"
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{
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"source": "declension",
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"neuter",
"plural"
]
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{
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"source": "declension",
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"ablative",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"feminine",
"singular"
]
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{
"form": "piō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"neuter",
"singular"
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"source": "declension",
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"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "pie",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "pia",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "pium",
"source": "declension",
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"neuter",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "piae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "pia",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
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"adv": "piē",
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},
"expansion": "pius (feminine pia, neuter pium, comparative magis pius, superlative maximē pius or summē pius or piissimus or pīssimus or pientissimus or piissumus or pientissumus, adverb piē); first/second-declension adjective",
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}
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{
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},
"name": "la-adecl"
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"lang": "Latin",
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"pos": "adj",
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{
"_dis": "100 0 0 0",
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"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
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[
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],
[
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],
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"english": "Translation by Henry Thomas Riley\nBut I'll make you, Amphitryon, to be holding other language; that you may understand that your wife is dutiful and chaste, upon that subject I will in a few words discover some tokens and some proofs. In the first place of all, Alcmena has given birth to two sons.",
"ref": "c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitryon 5.1.33–36",
"roman": "omnium primum: Alcumena geminos peperit filios.",
"text": "At ego faciam, tu idem ut aliter praedices,\nAmphitruo, piam et pudicam esse tuam uxorem ut scias.\nde ea re signa atque argumenta paucis verbis eloquar.",
"translation": "Translation by Henry Thomas Riley\nBut I'll make you, Amphitryon, to be holding other language; that you may understand that your wife is dutiful and chaste, upon that subject I will in a few words discover some tokens and some proofs. In the first place of all, Alcmena has given birth to two sons.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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],
[
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[
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"good"
],
[
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],
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]
},
{
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"source": "w"
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{
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"name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "3 0 7 90",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
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],
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"holy",
"holy"
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],
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],
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]
}
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]
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}
],
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}
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"Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
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}
],
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}
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{
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{
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]
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"tags": [
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{
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{
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{
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{
"form": "pia",
"source": "declension",
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"feminine",
"nominative",
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},
{
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"source": "declension",
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"neuter",
"nominative",
"singular"
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},
{
"form": "piī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "piae",
"source": "declension",
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"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"neuter",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "piī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "piae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "piī",
"source": "declension",
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"neuter",
"singular"
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{
"form": "piōrum",
"source": "declension",
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"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "piārum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "piōrum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "piō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "piae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"feminine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "piō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "piīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "pium",
"source": "declension",
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"accusative",
"masculine",
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},
{
"form": "piam",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"feminine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "pium",
"source": "declension",
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"neuter",
"singular"
]
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{
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"source": "declension",
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"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "piās",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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"feminine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "pia",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "piō",
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]
},
{
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"ablative",
"feminine",
"singular"
]
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{
"form": "piō",
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"ablative",
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"singular"
]
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"source": "declension",
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"feminine",
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"neuter",
"plural"
]
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{
"form": "pie",
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"singular",
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]
},
{
"form": "pia",
"source": "declension",
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"feminine",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "pium",
"source": "declension",
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"neuter",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "piī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "piae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "pia",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
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"adv": "piē",
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},
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"name": "la-adj"
}
],
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{
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},
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],
"lang": "Latin",
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{
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],
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[
"pious",
"pious"
],
[
"devout",
"devout"
]
],
"tags": [
"adjective",
"declension-1",
"declension-2"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Translation by Henry Thomas Riley\nBut I'll make you, Amphitryon, to be holding other language; that you may understand that your wife is dutiful and chaste, upon that subject I will in a few words discover some tokens and some proofs. In the first place of all, Alcmena has given birth to two sons.",
"ref": "c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitryon 5.1.33–36",
"roman": "omnium primum: Alcumena geminos peperit filios.",
"text": "At ego faciam, tu idem ut aliter praedices,\nAmphitruo, piam et pudicam esse tuam uxorem ut scias.\nde ea re signa atque argumenta paucis verbis eloquar.",
"translation": "Translation by Henry Thomas Riley\nBut I'll make you, Amphitryon, to be holding other language; that you may understand that your wife is dutiful and chaste, upon that subject I will in a few words discover some tokens and some proofs. In the first place of all, Alcmena has given birth to two sons.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"dutiful, loyal, conscientious"
],
"links": [
[
"dutiful",
"dutiful"
],
[
"loyal",
"loyal"
],
[
"conscientious",
"conscientious"
]
],
"tags": [
"adjective",
"declension-1",
"declension-2"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"good, blessed"
],
"links": [
[
"good",
"good"
],
[
"blessed",
"blessed"
]
],
"tags": [
"adjective",
"declension-1",
"declension-2"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Late Latin"
],
"glosses": [
"holy"
],
"links": [
[
"holy",
"holy"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Late Latin) holy"
],
"tags": [
"Late-Latin",
"adjective",
"declension-1",
"declension-2"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈpi.ʊs]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈpiː.us]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "pius"
}
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