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393 pottery<br />

giving ~: delect<strong>and</strong>o<br />

~ bought by pain: nocet<br />

~ in remembering: haec olim<br />

~ in weeping: est quaedam<br />

~ of seeing you again: au plaisir<br />

~ short, repentance long: court<br />

plaisir<br />

~ to dine without paying: gran<br />

placer<br />

~ to remember: forsan<br />

sensual ~: voluptates<br />

with ~: avec plaisir; con piacere<br />

pledge<br />

in ~: in vadio<br />

love ~: gage<br />

plotter: intrigant<br />

plot, unraveling of a: dénouement<br />

pluck <strong>and</strong> gather: carpere<br />

plumed: panaché<br />

plumpness: embonpoint<br />

pleasantly plump: zaftig<br />

pocket, out of his own: de bonis<br />

propriis<br />

poem: Gedicht; haiku; pathya<br />

poet: Dichter<br />

~ is born, not made: poeta<br />

would-be ~: un poète<br />

poetry: ars poetica<br />

~ <strong>and</strong> truth: Dichtung<br />

~ is devil's wine: poesis<br />

~ is like a painting: ut pictura<br />

point: punctum<br />

get to the ~: aller au fait; venez au<br />

growing ~: punctum<br />

let's get to the ~: passons<br />

make one's ~: faire une trouée<br />

~ by ~: punctatim; seriatim<br />

salient ~: punctum<br />

same ~: ad idem<br />

starting ~: terminus a quo<br />

to the ~: ad rem<br />

to the highest ~: ad summum<br />

poison: aqua<br />

~ <strong>from</strong> a golden cup: bibere;<br />

venenum<br />

police, secret: Gestapo<br />

policy<br />

change of ~: démarche<br />

reversal of ~: volte-face<br />

polished<br />

~ <strong>and</strong> complete: teres<br />

~ without facets: en cabochon<br />

polishing <strong>and</strong> revision: limae<br />

politeness: politesse<br />

out of ~: par complaisance<br />

~ costs nothing: berretta<br />

politician: politico; politique<br />

politics<br />

international — : Weltpolitik<br />

practical ~: Realpolitik<br />

pomegranate: granada<br />

pomp: faste<br />

pompous: fastoso<br />

pond: barachois; charco; estanque<br />

poodle, French: caniche<br />

poor<br />

~ amid great riches: magnas inter<br />

you always have the ~ with you:<br />

τονς πτωχονς (tous ptôkhoùs)<br />

poppy: chicalote<br />

popular: couru<br />

porch: lanai<br />

pork: porc<br />

porridge: atole<br />

port: pòrto<br />

~ after shipwrecks: post tot<br />

porter: hamal<br />

portfolio: portefeuille<br />

portion: partie; passus<br />

portrait: imagines; ritratto<br />

Portuguese<br />

~ noble: fidalgo<br />

~ titles of courtesy: senhor<br />

posse: posse comitatus<br />

possession<br />

~ for all time: κτήμα (ktêma)<br />

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

tener<br />

~ is nine points of the law: beati<br />

post<br />

military ~: corps<br />

~ office: correo; dak; Hauptpost;<br />

hôtel des postes<br />

posted: affichée<br />

poster: affiche<br />

postlude: Nachspiel<br />

postman: Briefträger; facteur<br />

postscript: l'envoi<br />

pot: chatti; marmite<br />

potentially: in posse; in potentia<br />

potpourri: mélange; pasticcio; pot<br />

pourri<br />

pottery: fictilia<br />

made of ~: fictilis<br />

potter has grudge against potter:<br />

και κ«ραμ€νς (kaì keramèus)

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