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The Harper Dictionary of Foreign Terms, 3e (1987) - Home

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unreservedly 416<br />

unreservedly: à coeur ouvert<br />

unrestrained: la bride<br />

unsaid, be it: indictum<br />

unsolicited: sponte<br />

unsuccessful: manqué<br />

untruthful for good purpose:<br />

splendide<br />

unusual: bizarre; insolite; rara<br />

unwelcome: de trop<br />

unwillingly: ab invito<br />

upon: dessus<br />

upriver: rio; río<br />

uproar: diable; tapage<br />

upstart: homme; neue Menschen;<br />

parvenu<br />

upstroke: poussé<br />

up-to-date: aggiornamento; être à jour<br />

upturned: cabré<br />

urn: samovar; urceus<br />

usage<br />

bad ~: ex malis<br />

ordinary ~: ius<br />

use<br />

in ~: in usu<br />

to everything its own ~: sua cuique<br />

utilitas<br />

~ is second nature: qui a bu<br />

what is the ~: à quoi bon; shikata;<br />

wozu dient<br />

useful with the agreeable: omne tulit;<br />

utile<br />

usual: à l'ordinaire; al solito; <strong>more</strong>;<br />

wie gewöhnlich<br />

utmost, to the: à outrance<br />

vacuum, in a: in vacuo; vacuo<br />

vain, in: en pure<br />

valid, universally: secundum<br />

valley: khud; Tal<br />

~ of the abyss: valle<br />

valor<br />

mindful of ~: pristinae<br />

~ in difficulties: virtus<br />

~ is soldier's glory: virtus<br />

valuable: de prix<br />

value: ad valorem; valuta<br />

beyond the ~: ultra<br />

of little ~: modique<br />

sentimental ~: pretium<br />

vane, weather: girouette<br />

vanguard: avant-garde<br />

vanity: amour propre<br />

all is ~: omnia vanitas<br />

~ of vanities: vanitas<br />

vanquished<br />

spare the ~, subdue the proud:<br />

parcere<br />

variation: variazioni<br />

vase, porcelain: potiche<br />

vaulter: voltigeur<br />

veal: veau<br />

vegetable: groente<br />

~s, meat, <strong>and</strong> noodles: chow mein<br />

with spring ~s: printanier<br />

vehement: heftig<br />

vehemently: focosamente<br />

vehicle: tonga; voiture<br />

covered ~: carromata<br />

horse-drawn ~: char-à-bancs<br />

veil: mantón; voile; yashmak<br />

vein: vena<br />

vellum, in: en vélin<br />

velvety: velouté<br />

venison: chevreuil; venaison<br />

jugged ~: civet<br />

ver<strong>and</strong>a: stoep<br />

verbatim: mot<br />

verse, free: vers libre<br />

verve: panache<br />

very: di molto<br />

vessel: lota; vas<br />

empty ~: vaso vuoto<br />

fishing ~: chasse-marée<br />

porous ~: alcarraza<br />

vestments: pontificalia<br />

vibratory: vibrato<br />

vice<br />

all have this ~: omnibus hoc<br />

~ thrives: alitur<br />

vicissitudes, through so many: per tot<br />

discrimina<br />

Victim, O saving: O Salutaris<br />

victory<br />

Pyrrhic ~: Καδμβια (kadmeía)<br />

~ comes in turn to men: νίκη (nikö)<br />

— is increased by concord: victoria<br />

view<br />

bird's-eye ~: à vue<br />

general ~: coup<br />

vigil: veille<br />

vigorously: vigoroso<br />

villa: dacha<br />

village: aidea; basti; derévnya; Dorf;<br />

Dorp; mir; pueblo; stanitza<br />

villager: aldeano<br />

vinegar: vinaigre<br />

not catch flies with ~: on n'attrappe<br />

vineyard: viña

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