Latin Vocabulary Words: lectio - martyr-yris
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- liquidus
- limpid, liquid.
- lemiscus
- a ribbon.
- liceo
- to be valued at, be for sale.
- lepidus
- charming, witty, pleasant, elegant.
- lectulus
- a small bed, cot.
- legumen
- a bean, pea, legume.
- lector
- reader.
- lectio
- selection, picking out / reading, perusal.
- lego vela
- to furl sails.
- legens
- (-entis) a reader.
- legatarius
- legatee.
- lectus
- bed, couch.
- legatus
- ambassador, messenger.
- legatio
- office of legate / office of ambassador, embassy commander.
- lego
- to gather, choose, collect, pass through, read.
- legio
- a selection / chosen body / legion.
- legifer
- lawgiving.
- legitiums
- lawful, licit, right, proper, legitimate.
- Marceniense
- Marchiennes,.
- Leodie
- Liege.
- lemma
- theme, title, epigram.
- leno
- procurer, go-between.
- leniter
- gently.
- lenio
- to mitigate, relieve, make better.
- lenimentus
- alleviation, impreovement, mitigation.
- lemures
- (pl. only) ghosts, phantoms.
- lenitas lenitudo
- smoothness, gentleness, mildness.
- lenis
- gentle.
- lenitas
- mildness.
- mara
- marl [an earth rich in CaC, added to lime-deficient soils].
- leo
- lion.
- lento
- to bend.
- lenocinium
- enticement, allurement.
- lentitudo
- slowness, sluggishness / apathy.
- lenocinor
- to pander, flatter, make up to /to promote, advance.
- lentesco
- to become soft, flexible, sticky /to weaken, slacken.
- lente
- slowly, calmly, cooly, deliberately.
- manus manus
- hand, band, handwriting.
- lepide
- charminly, wittily, elegantly, pleasantly.
- lentus
- lethargic, inactive /slow, lingering.
- lentulus
- rather slow, a little slow.
- mansurus
- that which will endure, abide.
- mansuetus
- mild, soft, gentle.
- liquor
- fluid.
- Marcieniensis
- Marchiennes.
- Leodium
- Liege.
- martyr-yris
- martyr.
- mare maris
- sea.
- maro
- to apply marl to the soil.
- maritus
- husband.
- marmoreus
- like marble.
- licentio
- to authorize, permit, dismiss.
- lepor lepos
- charm, wit, elegance.
- lex
- law.
- letum
- death, ruin, annihilation.
- leto
- to kill, slay.
- letifer
- death-dealing.
- lepus
- hare, rabbit.
- letanie
- litany.
- lepor
- to charm.
- Lesciense, monastery of
- Liessies.
- lethargus
- drowsiness, apathy, sleepiness, coma.
- letaliter
- mortally, fatally.
- letalis
- mortal, deadly, fatal.
- levo
- to raise, lift up /relieve, ease /diminish, weaken, impair.
- licentia
- license, leave, authorization /freedom, liberty /licentiousness.
- leviculus
- empty-headed, vain, silly.
- liberaliter
- courteously, generously, honorably.
- levatio
- alleviation, mitigation, solace.
- levamentum
- comfort, easing, alleviation, consolation.
- levamen
- alleviation, mitigation, solace, refreshment.
- levis
- rapid, swift /unimpotant /fickle, inconstant /unstable.
- levidensis
- thin, slight, poor.
- leviter
- lightly, softly, slightly.
- levitas
- lightness, levity /fickleness, inconstancy /groundlesness.
- liberalis
- courteous, generous, gentlemanly.
- liber libri
- book.
- lex legis
- law, statute /covenant, agreement.
- libatio
- libation.
- libenter
- willingly, with pleasure.
- libens
- with good will.
- libellus
- little book.
- liber libera, liberum
- free, independent, unrestricted.
- liber
- child, offspring.
- libertas
- freedom, liberty, independence / frankness, candor.
- licens
- unimpeded, free, unrestrained, unchecked.
- libero
- to lift (an obstacle), raise.
- mansuesco
- to grow mild.
- liberatio
- release, liberation, aquittal, setting free.
- libere
- freely, openly, frankly.
- libet
- to be pleasing, agreeable.
- libro
- to launch, ponder.
- libra
- scales.
- libido
- whim, caprice, violent desire, passionate longing.
- libramen
- poise, balance.
- linteum
- linnen, napkin.
- maleficus
- wicked, accursed, evil.
- mala
- jaw.
- lunatus
- crescent-shaped.
- loquacitas
- eloquence.
- lucrosus
- profitable, gainful.
- licet
- granted that, although / it is allowed, one may or can.
- limes
- border, frontier.
- linquo
- to forsake.
- limbus
- band, girdle.
- licitus
- permitted, allowed.
- licito
- to sell.
- ligamen
- string, thread.
- lima
- file, polishing, revision.
- ligo
- to bind, tie.
- ligatio
- imprisonment, bondage, captivity, servitude.
- lignator
- wood-cutter.
- lignarius
- carpenter.
- lino
- to smear, befoul, dirty.
- linio
- to besmear.
- limus
- mud.
- limito
- bound.
- lingua
- language, tongue, speech.
- mando
- to commit, entrust, order, command.
- magnificabiliter
- splendidly, greatly, terrifically.
- longe
- far.
- litigiosus
- contentious.
- macilentus
- lean, thin, skinny.
- mansuetudo
- mildness.
- litigatio
- dispute.
- magnificentia
- magnificence, splendor, eminence, magnanimity.
- litigo
- to quarrel, dispute.
- lito
- to propitiate.
- longaminus
- patient.
- loci
- (pl.) passages in literary works.
- litis
- dispute, contention, fight, battle, fracas.
- littera
- letter (of the alphabet).
- livor
- black and blue mark, malice, chastisement/punishment, bruises.
- litterae
- (pl.) letter, epistle, missive, note /literature.
- loginquitas
- distance, remoteness, isolation.
- locuples
- opulent.
- loco
- to assign, allot, grant, hire.
- locus
- place, location, situation, spot. [monastery].
- locupleto
- to enrich, make wealthy.
- locupletatus
- enriched, endowed.
- macies
- thiness, gauntness /poverty barrenness.
- luctisonus
- sad-sounding, mournful, baleful.
- loricatus
- wearing armor, armored.
- lorica
- hauberk [a coat of chain mail], a knight's service.
- longitudo
- length.
- longinquus
- remote, prolonged.
- longe lateque
- far and wide.
- longus
- long.
- lucrum
- gain, profit.
- lubricus
- oily, slippery, slick.
- lorum
- thong.
- lucinaria
- lamp.
- lucror
- to gain, profit, win.
- lucidus
- -a-um, shining, bright, clear.
- lucerna
- lamp.
- macer
- thin, lean.
- luminarium
- light, lamp.
- ludicer
- playful, means arbitrary, capricious.
- lucus
- thicket.
- luctus
- lamentation, mourning, grief.
- luctuosa
- feeling sorrowful.
- luculenta
- splendid.
- lumen
- light, lamp, lantern /light of day.
- lues
- plague, pestilence, calamity.
- ludus
- game, sport, school.
- ludicrum
- game.
- lugeo
- to mourn, be in mourning, grieve/(tans,) to lament, bewail.
- lugubris
- mournful.
- lugo
- mourn.
- macellarius
- butcher, slaughter-house.
- luo
- to undergo.
- luna
- moon.
- luminosus
- bright.
- luxus
- debauchery, extravagance.
- Lutosensis
- Leuze.
- lustro
- to survey, encircle.
- lupus
- wolf.
- lutosus
- miry.
- luxuria
- luxury, extravagance, opulence.
- lux lucis
- light.
- madesco
- to get wet.
- magister
- master, canon / master of a school, professor.
- macto
- to magnify, glorify, honor /slay, fight, punish, afflict.
- mactabilis
- deadly, lethal.
- magalia
- little tents.
- macresco
- to become lean, skinny, thin.
- maeror meror
- mourning, grief, sorrow.
- macero
- to soften, weaken, reduce, torment.
- maculo
- to stain, blemish, defile, pollute.
- macula
- stain, mark, spot/ blemish, fault, flaw.
- mador maero
- to grieve, sorrow.
- maculosus
- spotted, speckled, poluted.
- madidus
- wet, moist, soaked, boiled, soft, drunk, dyed, steeped.
- madide
- drunkenly.
- magis
- more, to a greater extent, rather, for preference.
- mano
- to flow.
- magnificus
- eminent, splendid, magnificent.
- magnopere magnus opere
- very, very much.
- magnus maior maximus
- large, great, important.
- magnifico
- to extol.
- maiestas
- majesty, dignity, greatness.
- manipulus
- maniple.
- magus
- magical.
- malo
- to choose, prefer.
- major domus
- ""Mayor of the Palace,"" chief steward.
- Malmundarium
- Malmedy.
- male
- wickedly, with evil intent.
- maiores
- (pl.) ancestors.
- Malbodiensis
- Maubeuge.
- majores
- elders.
- majores natu
- elders.
- maligo
- to do/contrive evil.
- malefidus
- faithless.
- maledictio
- curse, abuse.
- maligno
- to contrive/do maliciously.
- malens
- preferring.
- malignitas
- wickedness.
- malevolens
- malevolent, spiteful person.
- manifesto
- to make public.
- malus peior pessimus
- bad, wicked, evil.
- mandatum
- order, decree, mandate, instruction.
- malum
- evil, misfortune, misdeed, crime, injury, damage.
- mancipium
- slave.
- mancipo
- to transfer, alienate, seize, catch, give up.
- manentia
- permanency.
- maneo
- to remain, stay, stay the night, last, endure, abide by.
- mane
- morning, early in the morning, early.