15,000 words and phrases from more than 50 languages and their

la patience est amère, mais son fruit est doux 186
la patience est amère, mais son fruit est doux [Fr], patience is bitter,
but its fruit (or reward) is sweet: Rousseau.
la patrie de la pensée [Fr], the fatherland of thought (i.e., Germany):
Madame de Staël.
lapereau [Fr; pi. lapereaux], young rabbit.
lapin [Fr], rabbit. —lapin au kari (or cari), curried rabbit: cookery.
lapis [L; pi. lapides], a stone. —lapis philosophorum, the philosophers'
stone.
la pobreza no es vileza, mas inconveniencia [Sp], poverty is no shame,
but an inconvenience.
la povertà è la madre di tutte le arti [It], poverty is the mother of all
the arts; necessity is the mother of invention.
l'appétit vient en mangeant [Fr], appetite comes with eating.
la propriété c'est le vol [Fr], property is theft: Proudhon.
lapsus [L], a slip; blunder. —lapsus calami, a slip of the pen. —lapsus
linguae, a slip of the tongue. —lapsus memoriae, memory lapse.
lar [L; pi. lares], tutelary deity; beneficent ancestral spirit. —lares et
penates, household gods; the home. —lar familiaris, domestic or
household deity, usually the spirit of the founder of the family.
l'arbre ne tombe pas du premier coup [Fr], the tree does not fall at
the first blow.
la reine le veut [Fr], the queen wills it: formula of royal assent. In
Norman French, the form was la reyne le veult. Cf. LE ROI LE VEUT.
largamente [It], broadly; in a broad style: music.
l'argent est un bon passe-partout [Fr], money is a good master key.
See ARGENT.
larghetto [It], somewhat slow or slowly; between adagio and largo: music.
larghissimo [It], very slow: music.
largo [It], slow; solemn; also, slow, stately movement or piece: music.
larigo [Sp], on a Mexican saddle, a ring at each end of the cinch,
through which the látigos pass; Sp. Am. &f southwestern U.S. Cf. LÁTIGO.
la ringrazio [It], I thank you.
larka [Hind], boy: India.
larki [Hind], girl: India.
larmoyant [Fr; fern, larmoyante], tearful; weeping; lachrymose; fig.,
pathetic; sentimental; tragic.
lascar [Hind], East Indian sailor.
lascia parlare a me [It], leave speech to me: Dante.
lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate [It], all hope abandon, ye who
enter here: Dante (inscription over Hell, in the "Inferno").
lashkar [Hind & Pers], army; military camp; specif., a body of soldiers:
India.
la speranza è il pan de' miseri [It], hope is the bread of the wretched.
lass das Vergang'ne vergangen sein [Ger], let bygones be bygones:
Goethe (Faust's words to Margaret).