List of Latin phrases (L)

Latin	Translation	Notes
Template:Anchorlabor ipse voluptas	The pleasure is in the work itself.	Motto of Peter King, 1st Baron King as mentioned within 'The Improvement of the Mind. To Which is Added, a discourse on the Education of Children and Youth' by Isaac Watts 1741.
labor omnia vincit	Template:Nowrap	Popular as a motto; derived from a phrase in Virgil's Eclogue (X.69: omnia vincit Amor – "Love conquers all"); a similar phrase also occurs in his Georgics I.145.
Template:Visible anchor	To work, (or) to fight; we are ready	Motto of the California Maritime Academy
Template:Visible anchor	By labour and honour
Template:Visible anchor	Let us work for the fatherland	Motto of the Carlsberg breweries
Template:Visible anchor	Games are the glory of work,	Motto of the Camborne School of Mines, Cornwall, UK
lacrimae rerum	The tears of things	Virgil, Aeneid 1:462
lapsus	lapse, slip, error; involuntary mistake made while writing or speaking
Template:Visible anchor	inadvertent typographical error, slip of the pen
Template:Visible anchor	inadvertent speech error, slip of the tongue
Template:Visible anchor	slip of memory	source of the term memory lapse
Template:Visible anchor (quam innocentem damnari)	It is better to let the crime of the guilty go unpunished (than to condemn the innocent)	Ulpian, Digest 5:6.
Template:Visible anchor	praise to the end	Motto of Nottingham High School
Template:Visible anchor	His Praise Remains unto Ages of Ages	Motto of Galway
Template:Visible anchor	praiser of time past	One who is discontent with the present and instead prefers things of the past ("the good old days"). In Horace's Ars Poetica, line 173; motto of Template:Ship
laudetur Jesus Christus	Praise (Be) Jesus Christ	Often used as a salutation, but also used after prayers or the reading of the gospel
Template:Anchorlaus Deo	praise be to God	Inscription on the east side at the peak of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.; motto of the Viscount of Arbuthnott and Sydney Grammar School; title of a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier commemorating the passage of the 13th Amendment
Template:Anchorlectio brevior potior	The shorter reading is the better	A maxim in text criticism. Codified, but simultaneously refuted, by Johann Jakob Griesbach.
lectio difficilior potior	The more difficult reading is the stronger
Template:Anchorlectori salutem (L. S.)	greetings to the reader	Often abbreviated to L.S., used as opening words for a letter
Template:Anchorlege artis	according to the law of the art	Denotes that a certain intervention is performed in a correct way. Used especially in a medical context. The 'art' referred to in the phrase is medicine.
Template:Anchorlegem terrae	the law of the land
Template:Anchorleges humanae nascuntur, vivunt, et moriuntur	laws of man are born, live and die
Template:Anchorleges sine moribus vanae	laws without morals [are] vain	From Horace's Odes; motto of the University of Pennsylvania
Template:Anchorlegio patria nostra	The Legion is our fatherland	Motto of the French Foreign Legion
Template:Anchorlegi, intellexi, et condemnavi	I read, understood, and condemned.
Template:Anchorlegis plenitudo charitas	charity (love) is the fulfilment of the law	Motto of Ratcliffe College, UK and of the Rosmini College, NZ
legitime	lawfully	In Roman and civil law, a forced share in an estate; the portion of the decedent's estate from which the immediate family cannot be disinherited. From the French héritier legitime (rightful heir).
Template:Anchorlevavi oculos	I will lift my eyes	Motto of Hollins University and Keswick School, derived from Psalm 121 (Levavi oculos meos in montes).
Template:Anchorlex artis	law of the skill	The rules that regulate a professional duty.
Template:Anchorlex dei vitae lampas	the law of God is the lamp of life	Motto of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne
Template:AnchorLex dilationes abhorret	The law abhors delay
Template:Anchorlex est quodcumque notamus	the law is whatever we write down	Motto of the Chamber of Notaries of Paris.[1] Also lex est quod notamus.
lex ferenda	the law that should be borne	The law as it ought to be.
Template:Anchorlex hac edictali	the law here proclaims	The rule whereby a spouse cannot by deed inter vivos or bequeath by testament to his or her second spouse more than the amount of the smallest portion given or bequeathed to any child.
Template:Anchorlex in casu	law in the event	A law that only concerns one particular case. See law of the case.
lex lata	the law that has been borne	The law as it is.
Template:Anchorlex loci	law of the place
Template:Anchorlex non scripta	law that has not been written	Unwritten law, or common law
lex orandi, lex credendi	the law of prayer is the law of faith
Template:Anchorlex paciferat	the law shall bring peace	Motto of the European Gendarmerie Force
Template:Anchorlex parsimoniae	law of succinctness	also known as Occam's razor
Template:Anchorlex rex	the law [is] king	A principle of government advocating a rule by law rather than by men. The phrase originated as a double entendre in the title of Samuel Rutherford's controversial book Lex, Rex (1644), which espoused a theory of limited government and constitutionalism.
lex scripta	written law	Statutory law; contrasted with lex non scripta
lex talionis	the law of retaliation	Retributive justice (i.e., eye for an eye)
Template:Anchorlibertas, justitia, veritas	Liberty Justice Truth	Motto of the Korea University and Free University of Berlin
Template:AnchorLibertas perfundet omnia luce	Freedom will flood all things with light	Motto of the University of Barcelona and the Complutense University of Madrid
Template:AnchorLibertas quae sera tamen	freedom which [is] however late	Liberty even when it comes late; motto of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Template:AnchorLibertas Securitas Justitia	Liberty Security Justice	Motto of the Frontex
Template:Anchorlibra (lb)	balance; scales	Its abbreviation lb is used as a unit of weight, the pound.
Template:Anchorlignum crucis arbor scientiae	The wood of the cross is the tree of knowledge	School motto of Denstone College
Template:Anchorlittera scripta manet	The written word endures	Attributed to Horace. Motto of the National Archives and Records Administration.
Template:Anchorloco citato (lc)	in the place cited	More fully written in loco citato; see also opere citato
locum tenens	place holder	A worker who temporarily takes the place of another with similar qualifications, for example as a doctor or a member of the clergy; usually shortened to locum.
Template:Visible anchor	a classic place	The most typical or classic case of something; quotation which most typifies its use.
Template:Visible anchor	place of less resistance	A medical term to describe a location on or in a body that offers little resistance to infection, damage, or injury. For example, a weakened place that tends to be reinjured.
Template:Visible anchor	a place of repentance	A legal term, it is the opportunity of withdrawing from a projected contract, before the parties are finally bound; or of abandoning the intention of committing a crime, before it has been completed.
Template:Visible anchor (l.s.)	place of the seal	the area on a contract where the seal is to be affixed
locus standi	A right to stand	Standing in law (the right to have one's case in court)
Template:Anchorlongissimus dies cito conditur	even the longest day soon ends	Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 9/36:4
Template:Anchorlorem ipsum		A garbled version of a passage from Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum, widely used as a sample text for greeking (laying out text in printing before the final text is available). The original passage reads ...neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum, quia dolor sit amet consectetur adipisci velit... ("...nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain...").
Template:Anchorluce veritatis	By the light of truth	School motto of Queen Margaret College
Template:Anchorluceat lux vestra	Let your light shine	From Matthew Ch. 5 V. 16; popular as a school motto
Template:Anchorlucem sequimur	We follow the light	Motto of the University of Exeter
Template:Anchorluceo non uro	I shine, not burn	Motto of the Highland Scots Clan Mackenzie
Template:Anchorlucida sidera	The shining stars	Horace, Carmina 1/3:2
Template:Anchorluctor et emergo	I struggle and emerge	Motto of the Dutch province of Zeeland to denote its battle against the sea, and the Athol Murray College of Notre Dame
Luctor, non mergor	I struggle, but am not overwhelmed	Motto of the Glass Family (Sauchie, Scotland)
Template:Anchorlucus a non lucendo	[it is named] a "grove" because it is not lit	From late 4th-century grammarian Honoratus Maurus, who sought to mock implausible word origins such as those proposed by Priscian. It is a jesting suggestion that since the word lucus (dark grove) has a similar appearance to the verb lucere (to shine), the former word is derived from the latter word because of a lack of light in wooded groves. Often used as an example of absurd etymology, it derives from parum luceat (it does not shine [being darkened by shade]) by Quintilian in Institutio Oratoria.
Template:Anchorludemus bene in compania	We play well in groups	Motto of the Barony of Marinus
lupus est homo homini	A man to a man is a wolf	Plautus' adaptation of an old Roman proverb: homo homini lupus est ("man is a wolf to [his fellow] man"). In Asinaria, act II, scene IV, verse 89 [495 overall]. Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit ("a man to a man is a wolf, not a man, when the other doesn't know of what character he is.")
Template:Anchorlupus in fabula	the wolf in the story	With the meaning "speak of the wolf, and he will come"; from Terence's play Adelphoe.
Template:Anchorlupus non mordet lupum	a wolf does not bite a wolf
Template:Anchorlupus non timet canem latrantem	a wolf is not afraid of a barking dog
Template:Anchorlux aeterna	eternal light	epitaph
Template:Anchorlux et lex	light and law	Motto of the Franklin & Marshall College and the University of North Dakota
Template:Anchorlux et veritas	light and truth	A translation of the Hebrew Urim and Thummim. Motto of several institutions, including Yale University.
Template:Anchorlux ex tenebris	light from darkness	Motto of the 67th Network Warfare Wing
Template:Anchorlux hominum vita	light the life of man	Motto of the University of New Mexico
Template:Anchorlux in Domino	light in the Lord	Motto of the Ateneo de Manila University
Template:Anchorlux in tenebris lucet	The light that shines in the darkness	Motto of Columbia University School of General Studies Also: John 1:5.
Template:Anchorlux libertas	light and liberty	Motto of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Template:AnchorLux mentis Lux orbis	Light of the mind, Light of the world	Motto of Sonoma State University
Template:Anchorlux sit	let there be light	A more literal Latinization of the phrase; the most common translation is fiat lux, from Latin Vulgate Bible phrase chosen for the Genesis line "וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי אוֹר; וַיְהִי-אוֹר" (And God said: 'Let there be light.' And there was light). Motto of the University of Washington.
Template:Anchorlux tua nos ducat	Your light guides us
Template:Anchorlux, veritas, virtus	light, truth, courage	Motto of Northeastern University
Template:Anchorlux, vita, caritas	light, life, love	Motto of St John's College, Johannesburg

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