English words first recorded in the 14th century

It is inherited from Middle English pressure, borrowed from Old French presseure (“oppression, torture, anguish; press for wine or cheese”), pressure, a learned borrowing, and directly borrowed from…

It is inherited from Middle English promotour, also promoter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman promotour and promoteur, and directly borrowed from Medieval Latin prōmōtor (“one who advances or furthers”)…

It is inherited from Middle English pronouncen, also pronuncen and prononce, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pronuncier, also pronouncer, and Old French prononcier, now prononcer, and partly directly…

It is inherited from Middle English puberte, borrowed from Middle French puberté and directly borrowed from Latin pūbertās (“age of maturity, manhood”), formed from pūber (“adult, grown up”) and the…

1. The verb is Middle English punchen, borrowed from Old French ponchonner (“to punch, prick, stamp”), poinçonner, from ponchon, poinçon “pointed tool, piercing weapon”, from Vulgar Latin *punctiō…

1. The student is borrowed from Anglo-Norman pupille and pupille, an orphan who is a minor and therefore a ward, recorded in Anglo-Norman from 1327, and also directly from Latin pūpillus (“orphan…

It is inherited from Middle English purchasour, partly borrowed from Anglo-Norman purchaçur (“buyer, acquirer”), also spelled purchasour, and Old French porchaceor, the agent noun of porchacier (“to…

It is inherited from Middle English purificacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman purificaciun, purificacioun and purification, from Old French purificacion, and directly borrowed from Latin pūrificātiō…

The verb is inherited from Middle English redressen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman redrescer, also redrescier and redresser, first recorded as Old French redrecier about 1100. The French verb is formed…

It is inherited from Middle English reflexioun, refleccioun, borrowed from Old French reflexion and directly borrowed from Late Latin reflexio (“a bending back”), from reflexus, the past participle…

It is inherited from Middle English regeneracioun, partly borrowed from Old French regeneracion and partly borrowed directly from Late Latin regenerātiō (“a being born again”). The Latin noun was…

It is inherited from Middle English repleet, borrowed from Old French replet (“filled up, gorged with food”) and directly borrowed from Latin replētus (“full, fully endowed”), the past participle of…

It is inherited from Middle English retribucioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman retribucioun and retribution, and directly borrowed from Late Latin retribūtiō (“recompense, repayment; punishment”), a…

1. The word for the shoe is inherited from Middle English sandal, first as sandalie, borrowed from Latin sandalium, Barnhart and the American Heritage Dictionary also naming Old French sandale. The…

It is inherited from Middle English scisme, also sisme and cisme, borrowed from Old French scisme (“a cleft, split”), also cisme, recorded from the 12th century, and directly borrowed from…

It is borrowed from Middle French séduction, and partly directly borrowed from Latin sēductiō (“a leading aside”), formed from sēductus, the past participle of sēdūcō (“to lead aside, lead astray”)…

It is inherited from Middle English signet, also signette and sinet, borrowed from Anglo-Norman signet, also Middle French signet, seignet and segnet, a diminutive formed from Old French signe…

It is inherited from Middle English strong-hold, also strong holde, formed from English strong + hold (“fortified place, refuge”). This second part is the noun in its now archaic sense of a…

It is inherited from Middle English souker, also soker and suker, formed from Middle English souken (“to suck”) + -er, that is, from suck and the agent suffix -er. The verb is suken, sūcan. The verb…

It is from English supply + -er.

It is inherited from Middle English supporten, borrowed from Old French supporter (“to bear, endure”), and directly borrowed from Latin supportō (“to convey, carry, bring up”), formed from Latin…

It is inherited from Middle English tubbe, probably borrowed from Middle Low German tubbe or Middle Dutch tubbe, of uncertain origin. A connection with Old High German zubar (“vessel with two…

It is formed from English un- (“not”) + just, in its early use after Latin iniūstus (“unjust”). Just came into Middle English from Old French juste (“just, righteous”) and directly from Latin iūstus…

It was formed from English un- + reasonable in English, at first partly after the post-classical Latin adjective irrationabilis. Middle English spelled it unresonable, with many variant spellings.

It is inherited from Middle English weiward, a shortened form from Middle English aweiward (“turned away”), which is formed from Middle English awei + -ward, from away and -ward. The OED allows that…

It is inherited from Middle English advocacie, borrowed from Old French avocacie (“profession of an advocate”), from Medieval Latin advocātia (“patronage”), from Latin advocātus (“advocate”) (see…

It is borrowed from Middle French angelique, now angélique, or directly borrowed from Late Latin angelicus (“of or relating to angels”), from Ancient Greek ἀγγελικός (angelikós, “of or for a…

It is inherited from Middle English appointen, also apointen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman appointer, from Old French apointier (“to arrange, settle, make ready”), from the phrase à point (“to the…

It is inherited from Middle English augurie, borrowed from Old French augurie, and directly borrowed from Latin augurium (“divination from the flight of birds; omen”). The OED and Merriam-Webster…

It is inherited from Middle English banishen, borrowed from Old French baniss-, the lengthened stem of banir (“to proclaim; to banish”), now bannir. The Old French verb is of Germanic origin…

It is late Middle English, borrowed from Old French consequence (“result”) (modern French conséquence), from Latin consequentia, an abstract noun from consequēns, consequentem, present participle of…

It is inherited from Middle English deriven, also diriven, borrowed from Old French deriver (“to flow, pour out; derive, originate”), and partly directly borrowed from Latin dērīvō (“to lead or draw…

It is inherited from Middle English deviacion, borrowed from Middle French déviation and directly borrowed from Medieval Latin dēviātiō, from Latin dēviō (“to turn aside, go out of the way”), formed…

It is inherited from Middle English diffusioun, borrowed from Latin diffūsiō (“a pouring forth, spreading”), and according to Etymonline and the MED partly also borrowed from Old French diffusion…

It is inherited from Middle English directen, borrowed from Latin dīrēctus (“straight”), the past participle of dīrigō (“I set straight, arrange, guide”), from dis- “apart” and regō (“I direct…

It is inherited from Middle English discrete, borrowed from Latin discrētus (“separated, separate, distinct”), the past participle of discernō (“to separate, distinguish”), which is formed from dis-…

It is inherited from Middle English disfiguren, also defiguren, borrowed from Anglo-Norman disfigurer, a variant of diffigurer, or Old French desfigurer, and directly borrowed from Medieval Latin…

It is inherited from Middle English dualite, borrowed from Middle French dualité, from Late Latin duālitās (“the number two; twofold nature”), from duālis (“containing two; dual”), which comes from…

It is inherited from Middle English duchesse, borrowed from Old French duchesse, the feminine of duc (“duke”) with the suffix -esse (-ess), after Late Latin ducissa, formed on dux (“leader”), the…

It is inherited from Middle English duryng, earlier durand, the present participle of duren (“to last, endure”) (see dure), borrowed from Old French durer (“to last”), from Latin dūrō (“to harden…

It is inherited from Middle English ensuren, borrowed from Anglo-Norman enseurer, formed from en- (“make”) and Old French seür “sure”, probably influenced by Old French aseürer “to assure”; Hoad…

It is borrowed from Old French erroneus and directly borrowed from Latin errōneus (“wandering, straying”), which in post-classical Latin also meant mistaken. The American Heritage Dictionary…

It is inherited from Middle English executen, borrowed from Middle French executer, which Barnhart and Merriam-Webster explain as a back-formation from executeur (“executor”), and Hoad, Etymonline…

It is inherited from Middle English expellen, borrowed from Latin expellō (“to drive out, drive away”), formed from ex- (“out”) and pellō (“to drive, thrust”). Etymonline, after Watkins, traces the…

It is borrowed from Anglo-Norman famous, Old French fameus (modern French fameux), from Latin fāmōsus (“much talked of, renowned”), often in the sense “infamous, notorious”, from fāma (“talk…

It is inherited from Middle English fantastik, borrowed from Old French fantastique, from Medieval Latin fantasticus, from Late Latin phantasticus (“imaginary”), from Ancient Greek φανταστικός…

It is inherited from Middle English fermour, fermer, borrowed from Anglo-Norman fermer, Old French fermier (“lease-holder”), from Medieval Latin firmarius, from firma (“fixed payment”) (see farm).

It is inherited from Middle English felicite, borrowed from Old French felicité (“happiness”), also felicité, recorded in Anglo-Norman from about 1360–79 in the senses good fortune, happiness and…

It is inherited from Middle English foundacioun, borrowed from Old French fondacion, or directly from Late Latin fundātiō (“a founding”), from fundō (“to lay a bottom or foundation”), the source of…

The noun is Middle English funerelles, borrowed from Middle French funérailles (“funeral rites”), from Medieval Latin fūnerālia (“funeral rites”), the neuter plural of fūnerālis (“having to do with…

It is inherited from Middle English enducen, later inducen, borrowed from Latin indūcō (“to lead into, bring in, introduce; persuade”), from in- (“in, into”) and dūcō (“to lead”), from…

It is inherited from Middle English laxatif, also laxative, borrowed from Old French laxatif and Medieval Latin laxātīvus (“loosening”), from laxātus, the past participle of laxō (“to loosen…

The adjective is inherited from Middle English manifeste, borrowed from Anglo-Norman manifeste, also manifeste, and partly borrowed directly from their source, Latin manifestus (“caught in the act…

It is inherited from Middle English melodious, borrowed from Middle French melodieux, earlier melodieus, recorded in 1280, from melodie and the suffix that gave -ous. The Middle English Dictionary…

It is inherited from Middle English modifien, borrowed from Old French modifier, which in French is recorded from about 1355 meaning "to moderate, reduce" and in Anglo-Norman from the late 13th…

It is inherited from Middle English mocioun, borrowed from Old French motion (“movement, motion; change, alteration”), mocion, and directly from Latin motionem (“a moving, motion; an emotion”), from…

It is inherited from Middle English mevere, an agent noun formed from English move + -er. The OED compares Old French mouveeur and Middle French mouveur, and the MED movëor. Move is from…

The noun is inherited from Middle English murmure, borrowed from Old French murmure and directly borrowed from Latin murmur (“a low continuous sound, a subdued utterance, a grumble”). The verb is…

It is inherited from Middle English mosel, also musel, borrowed from Old French musel (“snout; muzzle”), now museau. The OED derives the French word probably from Medieval Latin musellum (“guard for…

It is inherited from Middle English narcotik, borrowed from Old French narcotique, a noun use of the adjective, and directly borrowed from Medieval Latin narcōticum, from Ancient Greek ναρκωτικόν…