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libro cerrado no saca letrado 192
libro cerrado no saca letrado [Sp], a closed book never makes a scholar.
licenciado [Sp], one holding a baccalaureate or licentiate; title of lawyer,
abbr. ledo.
licentia vatum [L], the license of the poets; poetic license.
licenza [It], license; freedom of style: music.
licet [L], it is permitted; it is legal.
Licht, Liebe, Leben [Ger], light, love, life: motto of Herder.
Liebchen [Ger], lit., little love; beloved; darling; sweetheart.
Liebe kann viel, Geld kann alles [Ger], love can do much, money can
do everything; love is mighty, but money is almighty.
Liebesbote [Ger], harbinger of love.
Liebesliedchen [Ger], love ditty.
Liebeswonne [Ger], the bliss {or ecstasy) of love.
lieblich [Ger], lovely; charming; delightful; sweet.
Lieb und Leid [Ger], joy and sorrow.
Lied [Ger; pi. Lieder], a song; ballad; German lyric.
Liederkranz [Ger], wreath (or collection) of songs; German choral society;
a type of cheese.
Lieder ohne Worte [Ger], songs without words.
Liedertafel [Ger; pi. Liedertafeln], lit., song table; men's singing club;
glee club; choral society.
lièvre [Fr], hare. —mémoire de lièvre, bad memory.
lila tov [Heb], good night.
limae labor et mora [L], the toil and delay of the file; the tedious
polishing and revision of a literary composition: Horace.
limande [Fr], the dab (fish).
limbus [L], lit., border; edge; hence, a region on the confines of hell;
limbo. —limbus fatuorum, fools' paradise. —limbus infantium, infants'
paradise; limbo for unbaptized children. —limbus patrum, the
paradise of the fathers; a place for the souls of righteous men of
pre-Christian times. —limbus puerorum, children's paradise.
l'inconnu [Fr], the unknown.
l'incroyable [Fr], the incredible.
linga sharira [Skr], astral counterpart of the physical body; ethereal
double (or self): theos.
lingerie [Fr], linen articles, esp., women's underwear.
lingote [Sp], an ingot of metal.
linguae verbera [L], tongue lashings.
lingua franca [It], lit., Frankish language; a common language spoken
in Mediterranean ports: Italian, mixed with French, Spanish, Greek,
and Arabic; any language used as a common tongue among people
of diverse speech.
lis litem générât [L], strife begets strife.
lis pendens [L], a pending suit: law.
List gegen List [Ger], cunning against cunning.