brazilian portuguese

• acatalepsia; incomprehensibleness, or the impossibility of comprehending or conceiving a thing.
• anuência; approval for the achievement of something; permission.
• cordiforme; heart-shaped.
• cuíra; an impatient person.
• endoestesia; deep, intimate or inherent sensitivity.
• enternecer; to soften.
• epifania; is an experience of sudden and striking realization.
• flamboaiã; an ornamental tree of red/orange flowers, originally from Madagascar.
• florescência; blooming.
• hamartía; the protagonist's errors that leads to a chain of plot actions culminating in a reversal from their good fortune to bad.
• holismo; the idea that systems should be viewed as wholes, not as parts.
• idiossincrasia; a peculiar temperament, habit of body.
• imbróglio; confusion, a difficult situation.
• inexorável; not able to be stopped or changed.
• intrínseco; belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing.
• lisergia; state of hallucination or psychedelia.
• necrológio; an obituary.
• nefelibata; one who lives in the clouds of their own imagination.
• noctívago; a person who walks at nights or who has nocturnal habits.
• oblívio; the state of being completely forgotten or unknown.
• obnóxio; one who submits to punishment, worthless.
• prepóstero; transposed, inverted.
• resiliência; an individual's ability to successfully adapt to life tasks in the face of social disadvantage or highly adverse conditions.
• serendipidade; a "fortunate happenstance" or "pleasant surprise".
• sidéreo; relating to, or expressed in relation to stars or constellations.
• solarengo; a residence that presents a "solar" appearance - large dimensions and elegant architecture.
• undívago; one who sails on the waves.
• volição; a cognitive process by which an individual decides on and commits to a particular course of action.

english

• cosmopolitan; a place with a rich mix of culture and languages.
• fýrgebræc; from the old english, the crackling or breaking sound made by a fire.
• labyrinthine; twisting and turning.
• mnemonic; assisting or intended to assist memory.
• oxymoron; combination of contradictory or incongruous words.
• philocalist; a lover of beauty.
• scintilla; a spark or a very small thing.
• susquehanna; a major river located in the northeastern united states.

italian

• arcobaleno; rainbow.
• arrabbiato; angry, infuriate person.
• chi si loda, s'imbroda; toot one's own horn (lit: he, who praises himself, gets broth all over himself).
• mi manchi; "i miss you".
• neonato; a newborn.
• non c'è due senza tre; what happens twice happens thrice (lit: there is no two without three).
• sfortuna; bad luck.
• tètro; ghostly, gloomy.
• tra il dire e il fare c'è di mezzo il mare; easier said than done (lit: between the said and the done, there is the sea).
• usignol; nightingale.

latin

• aegri somnia; a sick man's dreams, hallucinations, nightmares. First used by Horace, on Ars Poetica, 7.
• age quod agis; "do well whatever you do".
• alma mater; a school or university which an individual has attended, or a song or hymn associated with that school (lit: nourishing mother).
• alter ego; used to describe different facets or identities of a single character, or different characters who seem representations of the same personality.
• amor fati; an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss.
• anno domini; abbreviated from "anno domini nostri iesu christi" (in the year of our lord jesus christ), the predominantly used system for dating years across the world.
• cogito ergo sum; A rationalistic argument used by descartes to attempt to prove his own existence.
• cuius regio, eius religio; "whose realm, his religion", meaning that the religion of the ruler was to dictate the religion of those ruled.
• damnant quod non intellegunt; "they condemn what they do not understand".
• deus ex machina; a character or thing that suddenly enters the story and solves a problem that had previously seemed impossible to solve.
• dies irae; "day of wrath", a reference to the judgment day in Christian eschatology.
• dum spiro spero; "while I breathe, I hope".
• fiat lux; "let there be light".
• hodie mihi, cras tibi; "today it's me, tomorrow it will be you", a inscription that outlined the ephemerality of life in tombstones from the middle ages.
• nihil lacrima citius arescit; "nothing dries more quickly than a tear".
• sui generis; of its (his, her, or their) own kind, unique.
• sol lucet omnibus; "the sun shines for everyone."
• status quo; the current situation, or the way things are now.
• vita incerta, mors certissima; "the most certain thing in life is death".

greek

• geosmin; the earthy smell after the rain, produced by an actinobacteria.
• kardia; heart.
• petrichor; the scent of rain as it pours on dry ground of the earth.
• throisma; the sound of leaves rustling as the wind blows through the trees.

galic/galician

• caim; "sanctuary"; an invisible circle of protection, drawn around the body with the hand, to remind one to being safe and loved, even in the darkest times.
• morriña; nostalgic and melancholic homesickness experienced as one intensely longs to return home.
• raxeira; line drawn by the sunlight on the floor as it filters through the window.

french

• allons-y; let's go.
• âme; soul.
• je ne regrette nien; i regret nothing.
• quincaillerie; hardware store.
• réalisez vos rêves; make your dreams come true.
• trouver la perle rare (ou l'oiseau rare); to have found the one (lit: to have found the rare pearl or the rare bird)
• un coeur d'artichaut; one who falls in love too easily (lit: artichoke heart)

german

• zugzwang; a situation found in chess and other games wherein one player is put at a disadvantage because they must make a move when they would prefer to pass and not move.