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house 370<br />

pereunt<br />

use each ~: Gebraucht<br />

house: casa; dacha; dorn; igloo; maison;<br />

ranchería; rann<br />

boarding ~: pension<br />

coach ~: cochera<br />

furnished ~: maison<br />

~ <strong>and</strong> home: Haus und<br />

~ next door on fire: iam proximus;<br />

proximus<br />

H~ of Lords: Domus Procerum;<br />

Herrenhaus<br />

~ of prostitution: bordello; maison<br />

ice ~: glacière<br />

little ~: caseta; casetta; casita<br />

town ~: maison<br />

within the walls of a ~: intra<br />

parietes<br />

household: ménage<br />

housekeeper: balabustah; femme<br />

housewife: Hausfrau<br />

how: quomodo<br />

~ are you: come state; come va;<br />

comment allez-vous; comment<br />

ça; cómo está; cómo le; cómo<br />

vai; kak delah; qué tal; tena;<br />

wie geht's<br />

~ changed <strong>from</strong> what he was:<br />

quantum<br />

~ many: combien; tokohia<br />

~ much: kitna; quantum<br />

hubbub: brouhaha<br />

hue <strong>and</strong> cry: haro<br />

human being: homo<br />

Human Comedy: comédie<br />

humanities: litterae humaniores<br />

humming: fredonnement<br />

humor: u<strong>more</strong><br />

hundred: per centum<br />

hunger<br />

~ impelling to crime: malesuada<br />

~ is the best sauce: il n'est chère<br />

~ knows no laws: la fame<br />

~ teaches many things: multa docet<br />

hunter: byadha; cacciatore<br />

hunting: safari; shikar<br />

hurdy-gurdy: vielle<br />

hurrah: enviva; hoch; macte; ole; shabash;<br />

vive<br />

hurriedly: in fretta; precipit<strong>and</strong>o<br />

husb<strong>and</strong>: esposo; marido; muzh<br />

dear ~: caro sposo<br />

~ <strong>and</strong> wife: vir et<br />

~ <strong>and</strong> wife <strong>and</strong> lover: ménage<br />

hut: hogan<br />

Hydra, you are wounding a: νδραν<br />

(hydran)<br />

hymn of praise: Lobgesang<br />

hyphen: Bindestrich; Divis; trait<br />

hypochondria: maladie<br />

hypocrisy: cafardise<br />

hypocrite: patte-pelu; tartufe<br />

hypocritically: à la Tartuffe<br />

hypothesis: ex hypothesi<br />

I am<br />

~ not what once I was: non sum<br />

~ sorry: es tut<br />

ice: barf; glace<br />

~ axe: piolet<br />

~ bomb: bombe<br />

~ cream: crème<br />

idea, fixed: idée<br />

ideal of perfection: beau idéal<br />

identity, prove one's: montrer<br />

idle: désoeuvré; les bras<br />

idleness: désoeuvrement; fainéantise;<br />

geschäftiger; operose<br />

energetic ~: strenua<br />

~ is the tomb of living man: otio<br />

sepoltura<br />

pleasant ~: dolce<br />

idler: badaud; flâneur<br />

if<br />

~ I can: si je puis<br />

~ you please: s'il vous plaît<br />

ignoramus has no doubts: chi niente<br />

ignorance<br />

gross ~: ignorance<br />

~ is better <strong>than</strong> obstinacy: más vale<br />

ser<br />

~ of point in dispute: ignoratio<br />

elenchi<br />

~ of the facts: ad ignorantium<br />

~ of the law excuses no one: ignorantia<br />

facti; ignorantia legis<br />

not know black <strong>from</strong> white: nao ha<br />

where ~ is bliss: ignoti<br />

who knows nothing is worth nothing:<br />

quien no<br />

ill<br />

fatally ~: todkrank<br />

great —ness, great remedies: aux<br />

gr<strong>and</strong>s<br />

he's ~: aegrotat<br />

ill-bred: de mauvais genre<br />

ill-timed: mal à propos<br />

illusion: maya

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