"a" meaning in Old French

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "A",
      "tags": [
        "uppercase"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "letter",
        "3": "lower case",
        "4": "",
        "5": "upper case",
        "6": "A"
      },
      "expansion": "a (lower case, upper case A)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old French",
  "lang_code": "fro",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "14 77 0 0 1 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The first letter of the Old French alphabet, written in the Latin script."
      ],
      "id": "en-a-fro-character-dCTuOaiu",
      "links": [
        [
          "letter",
          "letter"
        ],
        [
          "alphabet",
          "alphabet"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "letter",
        "lowercase"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "a"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "al"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "au"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "aux"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "à"
          },
          "expansion": "French: à\n→ Danish: à\n→ Dutch: à\n→ German: à\n→ Hungarian: à\n→ Norwegian Bokmål: à, a\n→ Swedish: à",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "French: à\n→ Danish: à\n→ Dutch: à\n→ German: à\n→ Hungarian: à\n→ Norwegian Bokmål: à, a\n→ Swedish: à"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "ad"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin ad",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin ad.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "prepositions"
      },
      "expansion": "a",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old French",
  "lang_code": "fro",
  "pos": "prep",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to"
      ],
      "id": "en-a-fro-prep-Zj6hv~~l",
      "links": [
        [
          "to",
          "to"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "towards"
      ],
      "id": "en-a-fro-prep-lBxB~72m",
      "links": [
        [
          "towards",
          "towards"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "22 32 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old French prepositions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "son of a whore",
          "text": "fil a putain",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "belonging to"
      ],
      "id": "en-a-fro-prep-~ggbDPw2",
      "links": [
        [
          "belong",
          "belong"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "ad"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "not in manuscripts; occasionally used by scholars to differentiate between the preposition and the verb form",
      "word": "à"
    }
  ],
  "word": "a"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "verb forms"
      },
      "expansion": "a",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old French",
  "lang_code": "fro",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "avoir"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "third-person singular present indicative of avoir"
      ],
      "id": "en-a-fro-verb-2yTtOfBi",
      "links": [
        [
          "avoir",
          "avoir#Old French"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "ad"
    }
  ],
  "word": "a"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 4,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "ab"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin ab",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin ab.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "adverbs"
      },
      "expansion": "a",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old French",
  "lang_code": "fro",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "by, by means of"
      ],
      "id": "en-a-fro-adv-KOjgD8eI",
      "links": [
        [
          "by",
          "by"
        ],
        [
          "by means of",
          "by means of"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "a"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Old French adverbs",
    "Old French entries with incorrect language header",
    "Old French lemmas",
    "Old French letters",
    "Old French terms derived from Latin",
    "Old French terms inherited from Latin"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "A",
      "tags": [
        "uppercase"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "letter",
        "3": "lower case",
        "4": "",
        "5": "upper case",
        "6": "A"
      },
      "expansion": "a (lower case, upper case A)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old French",
  "lang_code": "fro",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The first letter of the Old French alphabet, written in the Latin script."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "letter",
          "letter"
        ],
        [
          "alphabet",
          "alphabet"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "letter",
        "lowercase"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "a"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Old French adverbs",
    "Old French entries with incorrect language header",
    "Old French lemmas",
    "Old French prepositions",
    "Old French terms derived from Latin",
    "Old French terms inherited from Latin"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "al"
    },
    {
      "word": "au"
    },
    {
      "word": "aux"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "à"
          },
          "expansion": "French: à\n→ Danish: à\n→ Dutch: à\n→ German: à\n→ Hungarian: à\n→ Norwegian Bokmål: à, a\n→ Swedish: à",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "French: à\n→ Danish: à\n→ Dutch: à\n→ German: à\n→ Hungarian: à\n→ Norwegian Bokmål: à, a\n→ Swedish: à"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "ad"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin ad",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin ad.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "prepositions"
      },
      "expansion": "a",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old French",
  "lang_code": "fro",
  "pos": "prep",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "to",
          "to"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "towards"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "towards",
          "towards"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old French terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "son of a whore",
          "text": "fil a putain",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "belonging to"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "belong",
          "belong"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "ad"
    },
    {
      "english": "not in manuscripts; occasionally used by scholars to differentiate between the preposition and the verb form",
      "word": "à"
    }
  ],
  "word": "a"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Old French adverbs",
    "Old French entries with incorrect language header",
    "Old French lemmas",
    "Old French non-lemma forms",
    "Old French terms derived from Latin",
    "Old French terms inherited from Latin",
    "Old French verb forms"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "verb forms"
      },
      "expansion": "a",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old French",
  "lang_code": "fro",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "avoir"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "third-person singular present indicative of avoir"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "avoir",
          "avoir#Old French"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "ad"
    }
  ],
  "word": "a"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Old French adverbs",
    "Old French entries with incorrect language header",
    "Old French lemmas",
    "Old French terms derived from Latin",
    "Old French terms inherited from Latin"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 4,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "ab"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin ab",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin ab.",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "adverbs"
      },
      "expansion": "a",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old French",
  "lang_code": "fro",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "by, by means of"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "by",
          "by"
        ],
        [
          "by means of",
          "by means of"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "a"
}