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comfort 344<br />

comfort: gemach<br />

comical: drôle<br />

coming: on y va<br />

comity: comitas<br />

comma: virgola; virgule<br />

comm<strong>and</strong>: hukm<br />

comm<strong>and</strong>er, knight: comendador<br />

committee: comité<br />

commoner: bourgeois; Le Bourgeois;<br />

roturier<br />

commonly: vulgo<br />

commonplace: banalité<br />

~s as if original: proprie<br />

what enthralls us all, the — : was uns<br />

commotion, what a: quelle affaire<br />

communion, Easter: devoir<br />

compact, social: contrat<br />

companion: compañero<br />

drinking ~: Bier<br />

he is known by his ~s: noscitur<br />

lady's ~: dame de<br />

pleasant ~: comes<br />

travel ~: compagnon<br />

companionship, sweet: dulce<br />

sodalicium<br />

company: compagnie; compañía; Gesellschaft;<br />

société; Verein<br />

in ~: en suite<br />

joint-stock ~: Aktiengesellschaft;<br />

société<br />

limited liability ~: comm<strong>and</strong>ité;<br />

société<br />

trading ~: société<br />

comparison<br />

~ of small things with great: si com*<br />

poneré; si parva<br />

to make a ~: confer; parva<br />

componere<br />

competing, not: hors concours<br />

competition: concours; concurrence<br />

complaint: audita; plainte; querela<br />

complete: totus; totus in<br />

complexion, fair: beau teint<br />

compliments, with author's: avec les;<br />

hommage<br />

composer: compositeur; Tondichter<br />

composition: étude; nonetto; opus;<br />

pastorale; pezzo; pièce<br />

composure: aequanimiter<br />

compote: tsimmis<br />

comprehension: Auffassung<br />

compromise: mezzo<br />

uncompromising: intransigeant<br />

comrade: camarade; Kamerad;<br />

tovarishch<br />

good ~: bon camerade<br />

comradeship: camaraderie<br />

concealment: camouflage; suppressio<br />

conceded, <strong>from</strong> what has been: ex<br />

concesso<br />

concerning: in re; re<br />

~ all things <strong>and</strong> <strong>more</strong>: de omnibus<br />

~ everything knowable <strong>and</strong> <strong>more</strong>:<br />

de omni re<br />

concert, morning: aubade<br />

concerto<br />

~ with two or <strong>more</strong> soloists:<br />

concertante<br />

small ~: concertino<br />

concession: octroi<br />

concessionaire: concesionario;<br />

concessionnaire<br />

concise<br />

~ly: paucis<br />

trying to be ~, become obscure:<br />

brevis<br />

conclusion: Schiuse<br />

after the ~ : après coup; après la<br />

pluie; post terminum<br />

impossible ~: reductio ad<br />

impossibile<br />

concrete: beton<br />

concubine: odalisque<br />

condemnation of what they do not underst<strong>and</strong>:<br />

damnant<br />

condition<br />

~s before the war: status quo ante<br />

existing ~s: status quo<br />

indispensable ~: causa; conditio;<br />

sine<br />

conductor: chef d'orchestre; Kapellmeister;<br />

maestro<br />

confederacy: Bund<br />

conference: pourparler; pow wow<br />

confession: pro confesso<br />

I confess: confíteor<br />

confidence<br />

~ begets confidence: fides facit<br />

in ~: entre nous<br />

in strictest ~: sub sigillo<br />

confidentiality: sub rosa<br />

configuration: Gestalt<br />

confinement: accouchement<br />

conflict of opinions: Kampf der<br />

confound it: cospetto<br />

confusion: dérangement; désarroi; nec<br />

caput

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