"pulcher" meaning in Latin

See pulcher in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈpul.kʰer/ [Classical], [ˈpʊɫ̪kʰɛr] [Classical], /ˈpul.ker/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ˈpulker] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Uncertain. The earlier form polcer is traditionally derived from Proto-Italic *porkros, from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥ḱ-ró-s or Proto-Indo-European *perḱ-ro-, from the root *perḱ- (“motley, variegated”), with dissimilation of the first *-r- into *-l-, though this has been challenged. Connection with poliō (“to polish, smooth”) or polleō (“to be strong”) is to be excluded. The aspiration is often considered secondary when the word would have been made to derive from Ancient Greek πολύχροος (polúkhroos, “multicolor”) by folk etymology, while an Etruscan borrowing is usually discarded. Etymology templates: {{unc|la}} Uncertain, {{inh|la|itc-pro|*porkros}} Proto-Italic *porkros, {{inh|la|ine-pro||*pr̥ḱ-ró-s}} Proto-Indo-European *pr̥ḱ-ró-s, {{inh|la|ine-pro||*perḱ-ro-}} Proto-Indo-European *perḱ-ro-, {{m|ine-pro|*perḱ-|t=motley, variegated}} *perḱ- (“motley, variegated”), {{m|ine-pro||*-r-}} *-r-, {{m|ine-pro||*-l-}} *-l-, {{m|la|poliō|t=to polish, smooth}} poliō (“to polish, smooth”), {{m|la|polleō|t=to be strong}} polleō (“to be strong”), {{ncog|grc|πολύχροος||multicolor}} Ancient Greek πολύχροος (polúkhroos, “multicolor”), {{glossary|folk etymology}} folk etymology, {{m|la|triumphus}} triumphus, {{m|la|Carthāgō}} Carthāgō, {{m+|en|anthem}} English anthem, {{m|en|author}} author, {{m|en|Anthony}} Anthony, {{ref|For this compare <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">triumphus</i>, <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">Carthāgō</i>, and also English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">anthem</i>, <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">author</i>, <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Anthony</i>, etc.|group=n}}, {{bor|la|ett|-}} Etruscan Head templates: {{la-adj|pulcher/pulchr|adv=pulchrē|comp=pulchrior|sup=pulcherrimus}} pulcher (feminine pulchra, neuter pulchrum, comparative pulchrior, superlative pulcherrimus, adverb pulchrē); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er) Inflection templates: {{la-adecl|pulcher/pulchr}} Forms: pulchra [feminine], pulchrum [neuter], pulchrior [comparative], pulcherrimus [superlative], pulchrē [adverb], in -er [masculine, nominative, singular], no-table-tags [table-tags], pulcher [masculine, nominative, singular], pulchra [feminine, nominative, singular], pulchrum [neuter, nominative, singular], pulchrī [masculine, nominative, plural], pulchrae [feminine, nominative, plural], pulchra [neuter, nominative, plural], pulchrī [genitive, masculine, singular], pulchrae [feminine, genitive, singular], pulchrī [genitive, neuter, singular], pulchrōrum [genitive, masculine, plural], pulchrārum [feminine, genitive, plural], pulchrōrum [genitive, neuter, plural], pulchrō [dative, masculine, singular], pulchrae [dative, feminine, singular], pulchrō [dative, neuter, singular], pulchrīs [dative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], pulchrum [accusative, masculine, singular], pulchram [accusative, feminine, singular], pulchrum [accusative, neuter, singular], pulchrōs [accusative, masculine, plural], pulchrās [accusative, feminine, plural], pulchra [accusative, neuter, plural], pulchrō [ablative, masculine, singular], pulchrā [ablative, feminine, singular], pulchrō [ablative, neuter, singular], pulchrīs [ablative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], pulcher [masculine, singular, vocative], pulchra [feminine, singular, vocative], pulchrum [neuter, singular, vocative], pulchrī [masculine, plural, vocative], pulchrae [feminine, plural, vocative], pulchra [neuter, plural, vocative]
  1. beautiful, fair, pretty Tags: adjective, declension-1, declension-2 Categories (topical): Appearance Synonyms: bellus, speciōsus, fōrmōsus
    Sense id: en-pulcher-la-adj-JieqhK3S Disambiguation of Appearance: 77 23 Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin first and second declension adjectives with nominative masculine singular in -er Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of Latin first and second declension adjectives with nominative masculine singular in -er: 46 54
  2. (figuratively) noble, honorable, excellent Tags: adjective, declension-1, declension-2, figuratively Synonyms: nōbilis, honōrābilis, excellēns
    Sense id: en-pulcher-la-adj-Ma5gtQQu Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin first and second declension adjectives with nominative masculine singular in -er Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of Latin first and second declension adjectives with nominative masculine singular in -er: 46 54
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: pulcer, polcher, polcer (english: earlier) Derived forms: pulchellus, pulchrālia, pulchrē, pulchritās, pulchritūdō

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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        "feminine"
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    {
      "form": "pulchrum",
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        "neuter"
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
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      "form": "pulcher",
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        "nominative",
        "plural"
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      "form": "pulchrae",
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      "form": "pulchra",
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        "plural"
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    {
      "form": "pulchrī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "pulchrae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "pulchrī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "pulchrōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrārum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
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        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "pulchrō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
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        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "pulchrae",
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    {
      "form": "pulchrō",
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      "form": "pulchrīs",
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        "dative",
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      "form": "pulchrum",
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        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "pulchram",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
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        "singular"
      ]
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    {
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    },
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      "form": "pulchrās",
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        "plural"
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        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
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        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "pulchrīs",
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      "tags": [
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    {
      "form": "pulcher",
      "source": "declension",
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        "vocative"
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      "form": "pulchra",
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        "vocative"
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    {
      "form": "pulchrae",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "pulchra",
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        "sup": "pulcherrimus"
      },
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          "word": "bellus"
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          "word": "speciōsus"
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          "word": "fōrmōsus"
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          "word": "nōbilis"
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          "word": "honōrābilis"
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        {
          "word": "excellēns"
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      "ipa": "/ˈpul.kʰer/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈpʊɫ̪kʰɛr]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpul.ker/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈpulker]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "pulcer"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "polcher"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "earlier",
      "word": "polcer"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "fr:Jacques André"
  ],
  "word": "pulcher"
}
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    "Latin lemmas",
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    "Latin terms derived from Etruscan",
    "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",
    "Latin terms with unknown etymologies",
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "pulchellus"
    },
    {
      "word": "pulchrālia"
    },
    {
      "word": "pulchrē"
    },
    {
      "word": "pulchritās"
    },
    {
      "word": "pulchritūdō"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "pulcre",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Catalan: pulcre",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Catalan: pulcre"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "poucre",
            "qq": "dialectal"
          },
          "expansion": "French: poucre (dialectal)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "French: poucre (dialectal)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "pulcro",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Italian: pulcro",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Italian: pulcro"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "pulcro",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Portuguese: pulcro",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Portuguese: pulcro"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "pulcro",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: pulcro",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: pulcro"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la"
      },
      "expansion": "Uncertain",
      "name": "unc"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "*porkros"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *porkros",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*pr̥ḱ-ró-s"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *pr̥ḱ-ró-s",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*perḱ-ro-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *perḱ-ro-",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-pro",
        "2": "*perḱ-",
        "t": "motley, variegated"
      },
      "expansion": "*perḱ- (“motley, variegated”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-pro",
        "2": "",
        "3": "*-r-"
      },
      "expansion": "*-r-",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-pro",
        "2": "",
        "3": "*-l-"
      },
      "expansion": "*-l-",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "poliō",
        "t": "to polish, smooth"
      },
      "expansion": "poliō (“to polish, smooth”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "polleō",
        "t": "to be strong"
      },
      "expansion": "polleō (“to be strong”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "πολύχροος",
        "3": "",
        "4": "multicolor"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek πολύχροος (polúkhroos, “multicolor”)",
      "name": "ncog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "folk etymology"
      },
      "expansion": "folk etymology",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "triumphus"
      },
      "expansion": "triumphus",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "Carthāgō"
      },
      "expansion": "Carthāgō",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "anthem"
      },
      "expansion": "English anthem",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "author"
      },
      "expansion": "author",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Anthony"
      },
      "expansion": "Anthony",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "For this compare <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">triumphus</i>, <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">Carthāgō</i>, and also English <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"en\">anthem</i>, <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"en\">author</i>, <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"en\">Anthony</i>, etc.",
        "group": "n"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "ref"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ett",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Etruscan",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Uncertain. The earlier form polcer is traditionally derived from Proto-Italic *porkros, from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥ḱ-ró-s or Proto-Indo-European *perḱ-ro-, from the root *perḱ- (“motley, variegated”), with dissimilation of the first *-r- into *-l-, though this has been challenged. Connection with poliō (“to polish, smooth”) or polleō (“to be strong”) is to be excluded.\nThe aspiration is often considered secondary when the word would have been made to derive from Ancient Greek πολύχροος (polúkhroos, “multicolor”) by folk etymology, while an Etruscan borrowing is usually discarded.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pulchra",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrum",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrior",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulcherrimus",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrē",
      "tags": [
        "adverb"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "in -er",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-adecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulcher",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchra",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchra",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrārum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchram",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchra",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulcher",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchra",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchrae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulchra",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pulcher/pulchr",
        "adv": "pulchrē",
        "comp": "pulchrior",
        "sup": "pulcherrimus"
      },
      "expansion": "pulcher (feminine pulchra, neuter pulchrum, comparative pulchrior, superlative pulcherrimus, adverb pulchrē); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)",
      "name": "la-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pulcher/pulchr"
      },
      "name": "la-adecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "beautiful, fair, pretty"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "beautiful",
          "beautiful"
        ],
        [
          "fair",
          "fair"
        ],
        [
          "pretty",
          "pretty"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bellus"
        },
        {
          "word": "speciōsus"
        },
        {
          "word": "fōrmōsus"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "noble, honorable, excellent"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "noble",
          "noble"
        ],
        [
          "honorable",
          "honorable"
        ],
        [
          "excellent",
          "excellent"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) noble, honorable, excellent"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "nōbilis"
        },
        {
          "word": "honōrābilis"
        },
        {
          "word": "excellēns"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpul.kʰer/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈpʊɫ̪kʰɛr]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpul.ker/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈpulker]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "pulcer"
    },
    {
      "word": "polcher"
    },
    {
      "english": "earlier",
      "word": "polcer"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "fr:Jacques André"
  ],
  "word": "pulcher"
}
{
  "called_from": "inflection/865",
  "msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: pulcher/Latin 'Number' base_tags=set()",
  "path": [
    "pulcher"
  ],
  "section": "Latin",
  "subsection": "adjective",
  "title": "pulcher",
  "trace": ""
}

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