Meanings (ES + gloss)
acender • encender • fogarizar
To start (a fire).
We lit the fire to get some heat.
acender (disused) • encender
To set fire to; to set burning.
She lit her last match.
if a thousand candles be all lighted from one
alumbrar • aluzar • iluminar
To illuminate; to provide light for when it is dark.
19th century', Frederic Harrison, The Fortnightly Review One hundred years ago, to have lit this theatre as brilliantly as it is now lighted would have cost, I suppose, fifty pound…
I used my torch to light the way home through the woods in the night.
Phrases
better to light a candle than to curse the darknessbetter to light a single candle than to curse the darknessbetter to light one candle than to curse the darknessbetter to light one small candle than to curse the darknesschain-lighthighlightkick the tires and light the fireslight a fire underlight offlight onlight one's hair on firelight someone's firelight the touch-paperlight uplight up the totelight uponlight-uplightablemislightoverlightprelightrelightunlightuplight