15,000 words and phrases from more than 50 languages and their

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con prestezza [It], with rapidity: music.
conquistador [Sp], conqueror; esp., one of the Spanish conquerors of
America in the 16th century.
conscia mens recti [L], a mind conscious of integrity: Ovid.
conscientia mille testes [L], conscience is as good as a thousand witnesses.
con sdegno [It], scornfully; disdainfully; angrily.
conseil [Fr], council. —conseil d'administration, board of directors.
—conseil de famille, family council (or consultation). —conseil d'état,
council of state.
con semplicità [It], with simplicity: music.
consensus facit legem [L], consent makes law.
consensus omnium [L], universal consent.
consequitur quodcunque petit [L], he attains whatever he attempts (or
aims at).
conservateur [Fr], conservative: politics; curator.
conservatoire [Fr], academy or public place of instruction in music,
elocution, and other arts; conservatory.
consilio et animis [L], by wisdom and courage.
consilio et prudentia [L], by wisdom and prudence.
consilio, non ímpetu [L], by deliberation, not impulse.
consommé [Fr], strong clear soup made from meat or from meat and
vegetables.
con sordino [It; pi sordini], with the mute (i.e., with the mutes on the
string instruments to lessen the sound; in piano playing, with the
soft pedal down): music.
con spirito [It], with spirit; with animation: music.
constantia et virtute [L], by firmness and courage.
consuetudo pro lege servatur [L], custom is held as law (i.e., in the
absence of any specific law, custom or usage decides the point at
issue): law.
consuetudo quasi altera natura [L], habit is, as it were, second (lit.,
another) nature: Cicero.
consule Planeo [L], when Plancus was consul; in my younger days:
Horace.
consummatum est [L], it is finished: Latin translation of Christ's words
on the Cross (John xix. 30).
contadino [It;/?/, contadini;fem. contadina,/?/, contadine], Italian peasant.
conte [Fr], tale, esp. of imaginary adventures; short narrative. —conte
à dormir debout, story that would put one to sleep on one's feet;
rigmarole; old wives' tale.
contentement passe richesse [Fr], contentment surpasses riches; enough
is as good as a feast.
conter [Fr], to tell; relate. —conter des fagots, to tell idle stories.
—conter fleurettes, to whisper sweet nothings; make love to.
continuato [It], continued; sustained: music.