L laborius = worker, laborer laminarius = tinker lanarius = wool worker lanatus = clothed in wool Landavium = Landau (Pfalz) laniarius = butcher laniator = butcher lanio, laniator, lanionij, lanionius = butcher; executioner lanifex (lanificis) = weaver laterarius = brick maker lautus = christening lautus est = he was baptized, has been baptized lavacrum = font lavatus est = he was baptized, washed lavo = I baptize, wash legio = legion legitimatus = legitimate legitimatus per subsequius matrimonies = legitimized through subsequent/after marriage legitimus (abbreviations: leg./ legitim.) = legitimate levabat = he was holding, raising, lifting up levans, levantes = godparent, godparents levantibus = by the godparents levare ex fonte = to raise from the baptismal font, to act as a godparent levir = husband's brother, brother-in-law liber = book, register, free liberi = children libra = pound (weight) lig.(atus) = married (bonded) ligati = marriage ligati sunt = they were married, have been married ligatus = married, joined, married person ligavi = I joined (in marriage) lignarius = joiner, cabinetmaker lignicidus = woodcutter linifex (linificis) = linen weaver lintearius = linen weaver locus = place locus domicilii = residing village locus et dies supulturae = place and date of burial locus originis = original village locus originis et domicilii, nrus. domus eorundem = place of origin ("birth") and residence, their house number locus originis et habitationis numerus domus = place of origin and residence, house number locus, annus, mensis, dies nativatus = location, year, month, day of birth lorarius = maker of belts Lotharingia = Lorraine ludimagister = schoolmaster, teacher ludimagister, ludi rector = teacher (male), schoolmaster ludimagistra = widow after (or the wife of) the village schoolmaster/teacher; teacher (female), schoolmistress ludus = school lunae, dies = Monday lupis = lupus lustratio = christening lustrationis = of the baptism luxor = in Latin language means "living in dissipation / licentiousness" [also with the meaning of living as concubine?] DISEASES laryngea = croup lues venera = venereal disease; sexually transmitted disease (std)