Etymology — The origins of English words

From Latin lobātus, equivalent to lobe + -ate.

From Middle English lavausly, equivalent to lavish + -ly.

From macula or macule + -ar.

From lease + holder.

From the palawa kani language.

Borrowed from translingual Manticora, from the same source as Etymology 1.

Blend of lust + making, modelled on lovemaking.

From Hindi कुमकुम (kumkum) from Sanskrit कुङ्कुम (kuṅkuma).

Borrowed from Italian lazzareto (archaic), lazzaretto, lazzeretto, from lazzaro (“leper”) + -etto (diminutive or meliorative suffix). Lazzaro is derived from Medieval Latin lazarus (“leper”), from Lazarus, from Ancient Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), from Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר ('el'azár, literally “God has helped”), from אֵל ('él, “God; a deity, god”) + עָזַר ('azár, “to assist, help”). Lazarus is a Biblical character mentioned in the parable of Jesus known as “The rich man and Lazarus” who is described as being a beggar covered in sores: see Luke 16:20–21. Doublet of lazar and lazaret. The plural form lazaretti is borrowed from Italian lazzaretti, lazzeretti.

A variant of McKenna invented in the 1980s.

From knee + pan.

From luminate + -ion, or a Latin *lūminātiōnem (“illumination”), from lūminō (“to brighten, to illuminate; to reveal (throw light on)”), from lūmen (“light”) (probably from lūx (“light”) + -men (suffix forming neuter nouns of the third declension)), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-s-men (“light”) (from Proto-Italic *louks, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; light; white”) + *-mn̥ (suffix indicating a noun))) + Latin -tiōnem (“-tion”, suffix forming a noun relating to some action or the result of an action) (from Proto-Italic *-tiō, from Proto-Indo-European *-tis (suffix forming nouns from verbs)).

Variant of Latin Mangi, q.v.

From Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs, “a pearl”) + -ite.

From Middle English [Term?], a diminutive of the given name Luke.

From Middle English knavych, knavyssh; equivalent to knave + -ish.

From Laputa + -an, after Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726).

lug + -some

Learned borrowing from Late Latin lītotēs, from Ancient Greek λιτότης (litótēs, literally “plainness”), from λιτός (litós, “simple”).

Calque of German Meistersinger.

Borrowed from Malay mampus (“to die, to perish, to be wiped out”).

From llama + back, after horseback.

Deverbal from let up.

From lion + hearted.