Meaning of lume | Babel Free

Definitions

1. flame, fire
   masculine
2. light
   dated, masculine
3. forest fire
   masculine
4. Equivalent to 'fire': Acronym of Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (formerly Foundation for Individual Rights in Education): a non-profit civil liberties...

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Examples

“Ay, meu fillo, alegria do meu curaçõ, lume dos meus ollos, solaz da mjna velleçe!”

Woe! My son, joy of my heart, light of my eyes, solace of my old age!

“ca despois que anoyteçeu tornou outrosí escuro speso a sobreguisa, et nõ fazía luar nẽ lume, pouco nẽ mais.”

because after nightfall it became dark, and this darkness was exceedingly thick, and it was neither moonlight nor light, no less or more

“se alguas seeteyras ou lançeyros estan feytas en a parede da dicta casa, que as çarren de pedra et que as non abran nunca nen façan y outras alguas a saluo fique en o sotoo da dicta casa as lumeeyras que foren neçesarias et perteesçentes para dar lume ao dicto sotoo que non seian por maneyra de defensa algua”

if some arrowslits or embrasures are built in the walls of that tower house, they must be closed in stone, never to be reopened, and they shouldn't build new ones, with this exception: that in the ground floor there should be the needed and sufficient skylights for giving light to said ground floor, as long as they are used for defending

“A hipótese básica é que os lumes, por máis que sexan intencionados, non obedecen a unha lóxica económica de potencia irregular de ano en ano, senón a causas continuamente presentes”

The basic hypothesis is that forest fires, even being caused intentionally, don't follow year after year an economic logic of irregular potential, but instead causes that are continuously present

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