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• 1: semaphore/English/verb: invalid uppercase tag General-American not in or uppercase_tags: {"categories": ["English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms borrowed from French", "English terms derived from Ancient Greek", "English terms derived from French", "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European", "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰer-", "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰyeh₂-", "English terms prefixed with sema-", "English terms suffixed with -phore", "English uncountable nouns", "English verbs", "Entries with translation boxes", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Terms with Armenian translations", "Terms with Belarusian translations", "Terms with Bulgarian translations", "Terms with Catalan translations", "Terms with Czech translations", "Terms with Dutch translations", "Terms with Finnish translations", "Terms with French translations", "Terms with German translations", "Terms with Greek translations", "Terms with Hebrew translations", "Terms with Hungarian translations", "Terms with Icelandic translations", "Terms with Italian translations", "Terms with Japanese translations", "Terms with Mandarin translations", "Terms with Romanian translations", "Terms with Russian translations", "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations", "Terms with Spanish translations", "Terms with Swedish translations", "Terms with Turkish translations", "Terms with Ukrainian translations", "en:Rail transportation"], "derived": [{"tags": ["adjective"], "word": "semaphoring"}], "etymology_templates": [{"args": {"1": "en", "2": "ine-pro", "3": "*dʰyeh₂-", "4": "*bʰer-"}, "expansion": "", "name": "root"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "fr", "3": "sémaphore"}, "expansion": "French sémaphore", "name": "bor"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "grc", "3": "σῆμα", "t": "mark, sign, token"}, "expansion": "Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma, “mark, sign, token”)", "name": "der"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "fr", "3": "-phore"}, "expansion": "French -phore", "name": "der"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "grc", "3": "-φόρος", "pos": "suffix indicating a bearer or carrier"}, "expansion": "Ancient Greek -φόρος (-phóros, suffix indicating a bearer or carrier)", "name": "der"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "sema-", "3": "-phore"}, "expansion": "By surface analysis, sema- + -phore", "name": "surf"}], "etymology_text": "The noun is borrowed from French sémaphore, from Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma, “mark, sign, token”) + French -phore (from Ancient Greek -φόρος (-phóros, suffix indicating a bearer or carrier)). 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