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appetite 334<br />

vermiform ~: appendix vermiformis<br />

appetite: à bon appétit<br />

~ comes <strong>from</strong> eating: l'appétit<br />

no sauce like ~: il n'est sauce<br />

appetizer: apéritif; canapé; horsd'oeuvre<br />

applauder, hired: claque; claqueur<br />

applause, making of: claquer<br />

application of oneself: prendre le mors<br />

appointment: rendez-vous<br />

appreciation, to feel: savoir gré<br />

apprenticeship, years of: Lehrjahre<br />

approval<br />

to have won ~ of eminent men:<br />

principibus<br />

apricot: abricot<br />

peach ~: abricot-pêche<br />

apronlike: en tablier<br />

Arcadia<br />

both <strong>from</strong> ~: Arcades ambo<br />

even I am in ~: et ego<br />

I too was born in ~: auch ich war<br />

arch, triumphal: arc de triomphe<br />

archduke: Erzherzog<br />

architecture: Baukunst<br />

~, frozen music: die Baukunst<br />

German school of ~: Bauhaus<br />

ardent: ardente; perfervidum<br />

ardently: ardentemente; praefervidum<br />

ardor: elan; empressement; estro<br />

area, enclosed: enclave<br />

argument<br />

~ proving ignorance, absurdity, etc.:<br />

argumentum<br />

chief ~: nervus prob<strong>and</strong>i<br />

ineffectual ~: σνκινη (sukinë);<br />

telum<br />

who proves too much proves nothing:<br />

qui nimium<br />

aria, short: arietta; cavatina<br />

aristocracy: optimates<br />

aristocrat: Junker<br />

to the lamppost with the ~s: les<br />

aristocrates<br />

armchair: fauteuil<br />

ar<strong>more</strong>d division: Panzer<br />

arms<br />

~ <strong>and</strong> the man: arma virumque<br />

let ~ yield: cédant<br />

open ~: à bras<br />

put down your ~: Gewehre<br />

receive ~: arma accipere<br />

side ~: armes blanches<br />

stack ~: formez<br />

to ~: aux armes<br />

under ~: in armis<br />

army: lashkar<br />

~ cook: cuistot<br />

~ post: presidio<br />

~ reserve: L<strong>and</strong>sturm<br />

call to ~ service: arrière-ban<br />

German ~: Reichswehr<br />

around, all: attorno<br />

arrangement, clear: lucidus<br />

arrest, under: arrêt; aux arrêts<br />

arrogance: hauteur; hubris;<br />

outrecuidance<br />

aristocratic ~: Junkerei<br />

~ in prosperity: €ντνχων<br />

(eutukhôn)<br />

arrow: flèche<br />

arroyo: coulée<br />

art: Kunst<br />

~ even to maligning: est ars<br />

~ is long: ars est longa<br />

~ of cookery: scientia<br />

fine ~s: beaux arts<br />

he will adorn the ~s: artes<br />

new ~: Art Nouveau<br />

true ~ conceals: ars est celare<br />

with ~ the mistress: arte magistra<br />

artichoke: artichaut<br />

article, lead: Leitartikel<br />

artist<br />

an ~ must live: die Kunst<br />

what an ~ dies in me: qualis artifex<br />

as<br />

~ if one should say: quasi dicat<br />

~ if said: quasi dictum; quasi<br />

dixisset<br />

~ much as it may be worth:<br />

quantum<br />

~ much as you please: quantum<br />

~ you please: se vi<br />

~ you possess: uti possidetis<br />

~ you sow: tibi<br />

~ you were: autant<br />

~ you will: a vostro beneplacito<br />

ascetic: sannyasi<br />

ask <strong>and</strong> it shall be given you: CUT€IT€<br />

(aiteîte)<br />

asparagus: asperge<br />

ass<br />

~ at the lyre: asinus ad<br />

~ beautiful to an ~: asinus asino<br />

~ remains an ass: ein Esel<br />

stubborn ~: à dur âne<br />

wool of an ~ : ovov (ónou)

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