English words first recorded in the 14th century

It is borrowed from Old French resigner (“to renounce, relinquish”), from Latin resignō, to unseal, cancel, give up, from re-, back, opposite, and signō, to mark, make an entry (see sign). Barnhart…

It is inherited from Middle English restauracion, restoracioun, borrowed from Old French restoration and directly Late Latin restauratio (“a renewal”), from the past participle stem of restaurāre…

It is inherited from Middle English sessioun, borrowed from Old French session (“act or state of sitting; assembly”) or directly from Latin sessiō (“act of sitting; a seat; a session”) (accusative…

It is an agent noun from strike, formed with -er.

It is borrowed from Latin tripūs (“tripod”), perhaps by way of Medieval Latin tripodium. Barnhart takes it as borrowed from French tripode and directly from Latin. The Latin word comes from Ancient…

It is formed from English un- + faithful, first as Middle English unfeithful, from feithful. Faithful itself is formed from faith and -ful.

The origin is uncertain, and many dictionaries call it unknown. It first appears as inherited from Middle English bunne, also bonne. The MED, Merriam-Webster and the American Heritage Dictionary…

It is inherited from Middle English charcole, also char-col and charecole, whose second part is cole, now coal, a word that originally meant charcoal itself. The first part is of uncertain origin…

It is inherited from Middle English clokke, probably borrowed from Middle Dutch clocke (“clock, bell”), or from Old Northern French cloque “bell”; both are from Medieval Latin clocca (“bell”)…

It is inherited from Middle English popler, also poplere, borrowed from Anglo-Norman popler, a variant of poplier (now peuplier), which is recorded in Old French from about 1170. The Anglo-Norman…

It is inherited from Middle English unpayd, from un- (“not”) and payd, the past participle of payen (“to pay”). The English verb pay comes through Anglo-Norman paier from Latin pācō (“to pacify”).

1. The adjective is inherited from Middle English frele, also freel, freyle and frail, borrowed from Anglo-Norman freele, also freile, and Old French fraile, frele, from Latin fragilis (“easily…

It is inherited from Middle English pelote, also pelet, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pelote and Middle French pelote (“ball”), in Old French pelote from the 11th or early 12th century, which came from…

It is inherited from Middle English pety, a phonetic spelling of Old French petit (“small”) (see petit), from a Romance *pittittus, a word for something very small.

It is borrowed from Latin īris (“rainbow, iris of the eye, iris plant”), from Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris, “rainbow”), whose stem ἰριδ- (irid-) appears in iridescent and iridium. The Greek word also…

It is inherited from Middle English knobbe, also knobe and nobbe, probably borrowed from Middle Low German knobbe (“knot in wood, knob, bud”), and, according to the OED, partly from the related…

It is inherited from Middle English lupine, also lupin and lippine, borrowed from Latin lupīnum or lupīnus, the name of the plant, or, as some dictionaries have it, borrowed from Old French lupin…

It is inherited from Middle English male, borrowed from Old French male, masle (modern mâle), adjective and noun, from Latin masculus (“masculine, male, worthy of a man”), a diminutive of mās (“a…

It is inherited from Middle English matrice, matris, borrowed from Old French matrice (“womb, uterus”) and directly from Latin mātrīx, mātrīcis, a pregnant or breeding animal, in Late Latin the…

It is inherited from Middle English moiste, borrowed from Old French moiste (“damp, wet, soaked”), also Anglo-Norman moist and moste, now moite. The Anglo-Norman adjective is recorded from the…

It is inherited from Middle English pasnepe, passenep, with an altered form, borrowed from Old French pasnaie (“parsnip”) (modern French panais), from Latin pastināca (“parsnip, carrot”), from…

1. The disease of birds is inherited from Middle English pippe, borrowed from Middle Dutch pippe (“mucus, slime; the pip”), which goes back to Medieval Latin pipita or an unrecorded *pippita. This…

It is inherited from Middle English primerose, also prymrose, probably borrowed from Anglo-Norman primerose, compare Old French primerose in the same sense (13th century), and directly borrowed from…

It is inherited from Middle English rosmarine, altered by folk etymology through association with rose and the name Mary. The Middle English word is borrowed from Latin rōsmarīnus, rōs marīnus (“dew…

It is inherited from Middle English skimmen, also skemen, probably borrowed from Old French escumer (“to remove scum, skim”), from escume (“scum, foam”), now écume, which is of Germanic origin…

It is inherited from Middle English soluble, also solubil and solabil, borrowed from Old French soluble and directly borrowed from Late Latin solūbilis (“that may be loosened or dissolved”), formed…

It is borrowed from Old French absence, ausence, a learned borrowing of Latin absentia, an abstract noun from absens (accusative absentem), present participle of absum (“to be away”), from ab “away…

It is inherited from Middle English absolut, borrowed from Latin absolūtus (“freed, unrestricted, complete”), the past participle of absolvō “to set free, acquit, complete, make separate”, from ab…

It is inherited from Middle English accident, borrowed from Old French accident, from Latin accidēns (“an occurrence; chance; misfortune”) (accusative accidentem), the noun use of the present…

It is inherited from Middle English adden, borrowed from Latin addō (“to add to, join, attach”), perhaps through Anglo-French adder, from ad- (“to”) and -dere, a combining form meaning “to put…

It is inherited from Middle English advers, borrowed from Old French advers (earlier avers), refashioned after Latin adversus (“turned against, facing; hostile”), the past participle of advertō (“to…

It is inherited from Middle English agreen, borrowed from Old French agreer (“to please, satisfy; receive with favour”), from the phrase a gré “to one's liking, favourably”, from Latin ad (“to”) and…

It is a contraction of the Middle English phrase al be it (“although it be (that)”), from all, used as an adverb, the subjunctive be and it. The first meaning was “let it entirely be (that)”.

It is inherited from Middle English alteren, borrowed from Old French altérer (“to change”), from Medieval and Late Latin alterō, to change, from Latin alter (“the other of two”), which is from…

It is inherited from Middle English ambassadour, embassadour, borrowed from Middle French ambassadeur (Old French embassator), from ambasciatore, from Old Occitan ambaisador, from ambaisa(da)…

It is inherited from Middle English aplien, applien, borrowed from Old French aplier, aploiier, from Latin applicō (“to attach, join; to devote oneself”), from ad- (“to”) and plicō (“to fold”), from…

It is inherited from Middle English ardaunt, also ardent, borrowed from Old French ardant (“burning, hot; zealous”), from Latin ardēns (“glowing, fiery, hot”), the present participle of ardeō (“to…

It is inherited from Middle English assuraunce, borrowed from Old French aseürance (modern French assurance), also asseurance, from aseürer (“to assure”) and -ance. The verb, the source of assure…

It is inherited from Middle English attendaunce, borrowed from Old French atendance (“attention, wait, expectation”), from atendant, the present participle of atendre (“to expect, wait for; to pay…

It is inherited from Middle English attencioun, borrowed from Latin attentiō (“attention, attentiveness”), partly through Old French attencion, a noun of action from attentus, past participle of…

It is inherited from Middle English audience, borrowed from Old French audience, from Latin audientia (“a hearing, listening”), from audiēns, present participle of audiō (“to hear”), from a compound…

It is inherited from Middle English autumpne, borrowed from Old French autompne and later directly borrowed from Latin autumnus, also auctumnus, a word of unknown origin, perhaps Etruscan…

It is inherited from Middle English captif, borrowed from Old French captif, and directly from Latin captīvus (“caught, taken prisoner; a prisoner”), from captus (“taken”), the past participle of…

It is inherited from Middle English casuel, borrowed from Old French casuel and Late Latin cāsuālis (“by chance”), from cāsus (“fall, chance, event”) (see case).

It is inherited from Middle English caverne, borrowed from Old French caverne (“cave, vault, cellar”), and also directly borrowed from Latin caverna (“cave, den, cavity”). The Anglo-Norman word is…

It is inherited from Middle English collateral, borrowed from Old French collateral, and directly Medieval Latin collaterālis (“accompanying, concomitant; literally, side by side”), which the Middle…

It is inherited from Middle English comedie, borrowed from Old French comedie (“a poem”), and directly from Latin cōmoedia, from Ancient Greek κωμῳδία (kōmōidía, “a comedy, amusing spectacle”), from…

It is inherited from Middle English congregacioun, borrowed from Old French congregacion and directly Latin congregātiō (“an assembling together, union, society”), a noun of action from congregō…

It is inherited from Middle English conjunctioun, borrowed from Old French conjonction (“union, joining”), from Latin coniūnctiō (“a joining, union”), from coniungō (“to join together”), from com-…

It is inherited from Middle English conservacioun, borrowed from Middle French conservation and directly borrowed from Latin cōnservātiō (“a keeping, preserving”) (accusative conservationem), a noun…

It is inherited from Middle English consolacioun, borrowed from Old French consolacion (“solace, comfort; delight”), and partly directly borrowed from Latin cōnsōlātiō (“a consoling, comfort”), a…

It is inherited from Middle English constreinte, borrowed from Old French constreinte (“binding, constraint, compulsion”), a noun use of the feminine of constreint, the past participle of…

It is inherited from Middle English consuler, borrowed from Latin cōnsulāris (“of a consul”), formed with the adjective suffix -āris from the noun cōnsul. The OED compares French consulaire, of the…

It is inherited from Middle English contagious, borrowed from Old French contagieus (modern contagieux), and directly borrowed from Late Latin contāgiōsus, from contāgiō (“a touching, contact”)…

It is inherited from Middle English continuacioun, borrowed from Old French continuation, recorded in French from the 13th century, from Latin continuātiō (“a following of one thing after another”)…

It is borrowed from Latin conveniens (“suitable, agreeing”), the present participle of convenīre (“to come together, agree, suit”) (see convene), from com- (“together”) and venīre (“to come”), from…

It is inherited from Middle English defeten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman defeter, from Old French desfait, deffait, the past participle of desfaire “to undo, destroy”, from Medieval Latin disfaciō…

It is inherited from Middle English diffynen, definen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman definer, from Old French definir, earlier diffinir “to end, determine”, and directly borrowed from Latin dēfīniō…

It is inherited from Middle English demonstracioun, borrowed from Old French demonstration and directly from Latin dēmōnstrātiō, dēmōnstrātiōnem, from dēmōnstrō, to point out, indicate, figuratively…

It is inherited from Middle English desolat, borrowed from Latin dēsōlātus (“left alone, forsaken, deserted”), the past participle of dēsōlō (“to leave alone, desert, abandon”), formed from dē-…