See tersus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "tersus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "tersūs",
"links": [
[
"tersūs",
"tersus#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "tersūs",
"links": [
[
"tersūs",
"tersus#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "tersuum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "tersuī",
"links": [
[
"tersuī",
"tersui#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "tersibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "tersum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "tersūs",
"links": [
[
"tersūs",
"tersus#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "tersū",
"links": [
[
"tersū",
"tersu#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "tersibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "tersus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "tersūs",
"links": [
[
"tersūs",
"tersus#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tersus<4>"
},
"expansion": "tersus m (genitive tersūs); fourth declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tersus<4>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"a wiping off, cleansing"
],
"links": [
[
"wiping",
"wipe"
],
[
"cleansing",
"cleansing"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "tersus"
}
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