| Question | Answer | Derivatives |
| labor -ōris (M) | labor, work; hardship, suffering | (laborious, collaborate) |
| lacrima -ae (F) | tear | (lachrymal, lachrymose) |
| laetus -a, -um | happy, delighted; fertile | () |
| lateō -ēre, -uī | to hide, conceal, lurk | (latent, latency) |
| lātus -a, -um | wide, extensive, spacious | (latitude, latitudinal) |
| lēgātus -ī (M) | envoy, ambassador; lieutenant | (delegation) |
| legiō legiōnis (F) | legion [the largest military unit, commanded by an imperator, a legate, or quaestor; usually between 3200 and 5000 soldiers] | (legion) |
| Libya -ae (F) | Libya | (Libya) |
| licet -ēre, -uit | to be allowed for x [dat.] to y [inf.]; granted that x [nom.] y [subjunctive] | (license) |
| līmen līminis (N) | threshold; door; house | (preliminary, liminal, subliminal) |
| litterae -ārum (F pl.) | letter, epistle; letters [of the alphabet] | (literary, literature) |
| lītus lītoris (N) | shore, beach | (littoral) |
| locus -ī (M) | place, position; rank | (location) |
| longē (adv.) | far, at a distance; by far | (long) |
| longus -a, -um | long | (elongate) |
| lūmen lūminis (N) | light; [pl.] eyes | (illuminate, luminary) |
| lūx lūcis (F) | light, brightness; day | (Lucifer, lucid) |
| magnitūdō magnitūdinis (F) | greatness; magnitude, size | (magnitude) |
| magnus -a, -um | great, large, huge; mighty; loud | (magnitude, magnify) |
| manus -ūs (F) | hand; band, force (of an army) | (manual, manufacture) |
| mare maris (N) | sea | (marine, maritime) |
| maximē (adv.) | very greatly, in particular, especially | (maximize) |
| medius -a, -um | middle of, the middle | (mediator, mediocre) |
| metus -ūs (M) | fear, dread, apprehension | (meticulous) |
| meus -a, -um | my, mine | () |
| mīles mīlitis (M) | soldier | (military) |
| mille passuum | mile | (mile) |
| mīlle; (pl.) mīlia | thousand | (mile, millenium) |
| minus (adv.) | less | (minus) |
| mīror -ārī, -ātus sum | to wonder, be astonished | (miracle, mirage) |
| misceō -ēre, -uī, mixtum | mix, mingle; to confuse | (mixture) |
| miser misera, miserum | wretched, miserable, unhappy | (miserable, miser) |
| mittō -ere, mīsī, missum | to send | (transmission) |
| moenia -ium (N pl.) | walls, ramparts; structures | () |
| mōlēs mōlis (F) | mass, weight; difficulty; greatness | (molecule, molest) |
| mōns montis (M) | mountain, hill | (montage, montane) |
| morior morī, mortuus sum | to die, expire; to decay, wither | (mortuary, mortgage) |
| mors mortis (F) | death | (mortality) |
| moveō -ēre, mōvī, mōtum | to move, shake; to arouse, agitate | (promotion, demote) |
| multitūdō multitūdinis (F) | crowd, multitude | (multitude) |
| multus -a, -um | much; (pl.) many | (multinational) |
| mūnitiō mūnitiōnis (F) | fortification | (munitions) |
| mūrus -ī (M) | wall, city wall | (mural, immure) |
| nam (conj.) | for | () |
| nātus -ī (M) | son, descendant | (nation, neonatal) |
| navis longa | warship | () |
| nāvis nāvis (F) | ship; fleet [pl.] | (navy) |
| nē (conj.) | not; do not; lest | () |
| -ne (enclitic) | [introduces a yes/no question] | () |
| nē . . . quidem | not even | () |
| nec, neque | and not; neither . . . nor . . . | () |
| Nerviī -ōrum (M pl.) | Nervii [a people of Belgian Gaul] | (Nervii) |
| nihil (N) (indecl.) | nothing, not anything; [w/ gen.] no | (annihilate) |
