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{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "incommodum"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "ūsuālis"
}
],
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{
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"lang_code": "ca",
"word": "ús"
},
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"word": "use"
},
{
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"word": "us"
},
{
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"word": "usage"
},
{
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"word": "uso"
},
{
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "Usus"
},
{
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"word": "uso"
},
{
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"word": "uso"
},
{
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"word": "uz"
},
{
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"word": "uso"
}
],
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{
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"2": "itc-pro",
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},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
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"2": "ūtor",
"3": "-tus",
"alt2": "-sus",
"id2": "action noun",
"pos2": "action noun"
},
"expansion": "ūtor + -sus (action noun)",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Italic *oissos. Equivalent to ūtor + -sus (action noun).",
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{
"form": "ūsus",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"form": "ūsūs",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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},
{
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"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
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"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ūsūs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ūsuum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ūsuī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ūsibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ūsum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ūsūs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ūsū",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ūsibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ūsus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "ūsūs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "ūsuus",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Medieval-Latin"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "ūsus<4>"
},
"expansion": "ūsus m (genitive ūsūs); fourth declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "ūsus<4>"
},
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],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "incommodum"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "16 26 24 16 18",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension",
"parents": [],
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}
],
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{
"english": "But afterwards — as experience is the teacher of all things — it was discovered, by the application of the men's ingenuity, that it could be of great use to them if this tower were raised to a height.",
"ref": "Julius Caesar, Commentarii De Bello Civili, Book 2, Stanza 8",
"text": "Postea vero, ut est rerum omnium magister usus, hominum adhibita sollertia inventum est magno esse usui posse, si haec esset in altitudinem turris elata.",
"translation": "But afterwards — as experience is the teacher of all things — it was discovered, by the application of the men's ingenuity, that it could be of great use to them if this tower were raised to a height."
}
],
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],
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[
"use",
"use"
],
[
"employment",
"employment"
],
[
"exercise",
"exercise"
],
[
"advantage",
"advantage"
]
],
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{
"word": "commodum"
},
{
"word": "praemium"
},
{
"word": "commoditas"
},
{
"word": "profectus"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-4"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "16 26 24 16 18",
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"name": "Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension",
"parents": [],
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}
],
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{
"english": "Constant practice devoted to one subject often prevails over both ability and skill.",
"ref": "Cicero, Pro Balbo, section 45",
"text": "Adsiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit.",
"translation": "Constant practice devoted to one subject often prevails over both ability and skill."
}
],
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"practice"
],
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"practice",
"practice"
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],
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},
{
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],
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{
"english": "But afterwards — as experience is the teacher of all things — it was discovered, by the application of the men's ingenuity, that it could be of great use to them if this tower were raised to a height.",
"ref": "Julius Caesar, Commentarii De Bello Civili, Book 2, Stanza 8",
"text": "Postea vero, ut est rerum omnium magister usus, hominum adhibita sollertia inventum est magno esse usui posse, si haec esset in altitudinem turris elata.",
"translation": "But afterwards — as experience is the teacher of all things — it was discovered, by the application of the men's ingenuity, that it could be of great use to them if this tower were raised to a height."
}
],
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],
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[
"experience",
"experience"
],
[
"discipline",
"discipline"
],
[
"skill",
"skill"
]
],
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"word": "disciplīna"
},
{
"word": "experientia"
}
],
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"declension-4"
]
},
{
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{
"_dis": "16 26 24 16 18",
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"parents": [],
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}
],
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{
"english": "I don’t want to get myself into a huge topic and argue about the treatment of slaves, towards whom we are exceedingly arrogant, cruel, and abusive.\n(The meaning extends beyond the practical “use” of slave labor to the habit or custom of its application; in other words, how the slaves themselves are treated. The Richard M. Gummere translation, e.g., has “treatment” in this sense of “usu”.)",
"ref": "c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 47.11",
"text": "Nōlō in ingentem mē locum immittere et dē ūsū servōrum disputāre, in quōs superbissimī, crūdēlissimī, contumēliōsissimī sumus.",
"translation": "I don’t want to get myself into a huge topic and argue about the treatment of slaves, towards whom we are exceedingly arrogant, cruel, and abusive.\n(The meaning extends beyond the practical “use” of slave labor to the habit or custom of its application; in other words, how the slaves themselves are treated. The Richard M. Gummere translation, e.g., has “treatment” in this sense of “usu”.)",
"type": "quotation"
}
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],
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"habit",
"habit"
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[
"usage",
"usage"
],
[
"custom",
"custom"
]
],
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{
"word": "mos"
},
{
"word": "solitum"
},
{
"word": "exemplum"
}
],
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]
},
{
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{
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},
{
"_dis": "9 10 11 24 45",
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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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},
{
"word": "inopia"
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{
"word": "indigentia"
},
{
"word": "opus"
}
],
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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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{
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{
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"genitive",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ūsōrum",
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"genitive",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ūsārum",
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"genitive",
"plural"
]
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{
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"genitive",
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{
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{
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{
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{
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},
{
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{
"form": "ūsā",
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"ablative",
"feminine",
"singular"
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{
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"ablative",
"neuter",
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"ablative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"plural"
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{
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"source": "declension",
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"masculine",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "ūsum",
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"neuter",
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"vocative"
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},
{
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"masculine",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "ūsae",
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"feminine",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
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{
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}
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{
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"word": "ūtor"
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"worn, having worn."
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"consumed, having consumed."
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"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
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}
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"Latin nouns",
"Latin participles",
"Latin perfect participles",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
"Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
"Latin terms suffixed with -tus (action noun)",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
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{
"word": "ūsuālis"
}
],
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"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"word": "ús"
},
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"word": "use"
},
{
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"word": "us"
},
{
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"word": "usage"
},
{
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"word": "uso"
},
{
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "Usus"
},
{
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"word": "uso"
},
{
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"word": "uso"
},
{
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"word": "uz"
},
{
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"word": "uso"
}
],
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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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"plural"
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{
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{
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"english": "But afterwards — as experience is the teacher of all things — it was discovered, by the application of the men's ingenuity, that it could be of great use to them if this tower were raised to a height.",
"ref": "Julius Caesar, Commentarii De Bello Civili, Book 2, Stanza 8",
"text": "Postea vero, ut est rerum omnium magister usus, hominum adhibita sollertia inventum est magno esse usui posse, si haec esset in altitudinem turris elata.",
"translation": "But afterwards — as experience is the teacher of all things — it was discovered, by the application of the men's ingenuity, that it could be of great use to them if this tower were raised to a height."
}
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"english": "Constant practice devoted to one subject often prevails over both ability and skill.",
"ref": "Cicero, Pro Balbo, section 45",
"text": "Adsiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit.",
"translation": "Constant practice devoted to one subject often prevails over both ability and skill."
}
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"english": "But afterwards — as experience is the teacher of all things — it was discovered, by the application of the men's ingenuity, that it could be of great use to them if this tower were raised to a height.",
"ref": "Julius Caesar, Commentarii De Bello Civili, Book 2, Stanza 8",
"text": "Postea vero, ut est rerum omnium magister usus, hominum adhibita sollertia inventum est magno esse usui posse, si haec esset in altitudinem turris elata.",
"translation": "But afterwards — as experience is the teacher of all things — it was discovered, by the application of the men's ingenuity, that it could be of great use to them if this tower were raised to a height."
}
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{
"english": "I don’t want to get myself into a huge topic and argue about the treatment of slaves, towards whom we are exceedingly arrogant, cruel, and abusive.\n(The meaning extends beyond the practical “use” of slave labor to the habit or custom of its application; in other words, how the slaves themselves are treated. The Richard M. Gummere translation, e.g., has “treatment” in this sense of “usu”.)",
"ref": "c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 47.11",
"text": "Nōlō in ingentem mē locum immittere et dē ūsū servōrum disputāre, in quōs superbissimī, crūdēlissimī, contumēliōsissimī sumus.",
"translation": "I don’t want to get myself into a huge topic and argue about the treatment of slaves, towards whom we are exceedingly arrogant, cruel, and abusive.\n(The meaning extends beyond the practical “use” of slave labor to the habit or custom of its application; in other words, how the slaves themselves are treated. The Richard M. Gummere translation, e.g., has “treatment” in this sense of “usu”.)",
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{
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{
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{
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{
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"Latin non-lemma forms",
"Latin participles",
"Latin perfect participles",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 7 entries",
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{
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"singular"
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"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"plural"
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"source": "declension",
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"masculine",
"singular"
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{
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"source": "declension",
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"accusative",
"feminine",
"singular"
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{
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"accusative",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
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{
"form": "ūsās",
"source": "declension",
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"accusative",
"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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{
"form": "ūsā",
"source": "declension",
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"ablative",
"feminine",
"singular"
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{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"neuter",
"singular"
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"ablative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"plural"
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"source": "declension",
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"masculine",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
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"feminine",
"singular",
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{
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"plural",
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"feminine",
"plural",
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"name": "la-part"
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"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "verb",
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"extra": "to make use of",
"word": "ūtor"
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"used, employed, having used."
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"word": "ūtor"
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"word": "ūtor"
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"experienced, undergone, having experienced."
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"undergone",
"undergone"
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"form-of",
"participle",
"perfect"
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"word": "ūtor"
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"worn, having worn."
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"word": "ūtor"
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"consumed, having consumed."
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"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
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}
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