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ave! 32
ave! [L], hail! —ave atque vale, hail and farewell! —ave, Caesar (or
Imperator)! morituri te salutamus, hail, Caesar (or Emperor)! we
who are about to die salute thee: salutation of the gladiators to the
Roman emperor. —Ave Maria, hail, Mary!: a salutation and prayer
to the Blessed Virgin. —Ave maris stella, Dei Mater alma, atque
semper Virgo, felix coeli porta,
Hail, thou star of ocean!
Portal of the sky!
Ever Virgin Mother
Of the Lord most high!
—Hymn to the Blessed Virgin.
avec entrain [Fr], with a will; with enthusiasm.
avec les hommages de l'auteur [Fr], with the author's compliments.
avec nantissement [Fr], with security: law.
avec plaisir [Fr], with pleasure.
avec votre permission [Fr], by your leave.
avenida [Sp], avenue.
a verbis ad verbera [L], from words to blows.
avertissement [Fr], notice; warning.
avete ragione [It], you are right.
avete torto [It], you are wrong.
aviado [Sp], one who mines with means furnished by another: Sp. Am.
avia Pieridum loca [L], the Muses' lonely haunts: Lucretius (adapted).
à vieux comptes nouvelles disputes [Fr], old reckonings create new
disputes; short reckonings make long friends.
avi memoran tur avorum [L], my ancestors call to mind their ancestors
(i.e., I have a long ancestral line),
a vinculo matrimonii [L], from the bond of marriage.
avion [Fr], airplane. —avion de chasse, pursuit plane.
avis [Fr], notice.
avis au lecteur [Fr], notice to the reader.
avise la fin [Fr], consider the end.
aviso [Sp], notice; information; warning.
avito viret honore [L], he flourishes on ancestral honors.
avocat [Fr], advocate; lawyer; also, avocado.
avoir de la frousse [Fr], to be in a fright: colloq.
avoir de l'avenir [Fr], to have good future prospects.
avoir de l'entregent [Fr], to possess tact.
avoir du guignon [Fr], to be unlucky; be down on one's luck.
avoir du toupet [Fr], lit., to have a forelock; to have a nerve: colloq.
avoir la langue bien pendue [Fr], lit., to have the tongue well hung;
have the gift of gab.
avoir Taller pour le venir [Fr], lit., to have the going for the coming;
have one's labor for one's pains.