English words first recorded in the 16th century

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin manūscrīptum (“document written by hand”), from Latin manū scrīptus (“written by hand”), from manū, the ablative of manus (“hand”), and scrīptus, the past…

It is borrowed from Middle French masculinité (1520), from masculin (“masculine”) and the suffix -ité. The OED compares an isolated Old French masculinité (about 1268) and Medieval Latin…

It is partly borrowed from Middle French pédagogie (“instruction, education”), recorded in French from 1495, and partly borrowed from Medieval Latin paedagogia (“school; teaching, education”), both…

It is formed from English re- + consider. Etymonline takes it partly from French reconsidérer as well; the OED compares reconsiderer and the French verb, recorded from 1311 but rare between the 16th…

The OED, which revised the entry in 2009, takes it as formed from English register + -ar, with the third syllable dropped, after Medieval Latin registrārius (“one who keeps a record”). Etymonline…

The noun is related to an earlier verb skit, to caper or be skittish (1611), but its history before that is unclear. The verb may be a back-formation from skittish, itself perhaps from a…

It is formed from English un- + disclosed, the past participle of disclose.

It is borrowed from Middle French valide and directly from Latin validus (“strong, effective, powerful”), from valeō (“to be strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *wal- (“to be strong”). It is related…

It is borrowed from Middle French vogue (“a rowing; course, success, fashion”), from voguer (“to row, sway, set sail”), which the OED, Merriam-Webster and the Oxford Dictionary of English derive…

It is borrowed from Latin ambiēns (“going round”), the present participle of ambiō (“to go round, surround”), formed from amb- (“around”) and eō (“to go”). Barnhart, Hoad and the Shorter Oxford…

It is borrowed from Latin conglomerātus, the past participle of conglomerō (“to roll together, heap up”), from com- (“with, together”) and glomerō (“to wind into a ball, gather”), from glomus…

It is borrowed from Late Latin dēteriōrō (“to make worse; to get worse”), from its past participle dēteriōrātus, perhaps also through the influence of French détériorer, itself a learned borrowing…

It is borrowed from Latin fascinātiō (“a casting of spells, bewitching”), a noun of action from the past participle of fascinō (“to bewitch, cast a spell on”), from fascinum (“spell, witchcraft”)…

It is formed from English heart + broken, and Etymonline describes it as a past-participle formation from the noun heartbreak. The OED compares the phrase “to break a person’s heart” and the earlier…

It is borrowed from Late Latin icon, from Greek εἰκών (eikṓn, “likeness, image, portrait”), related to ἔοικα (eíkenai, “to be like”).

It is borrowed from Latin obnoxiōsus (“subject, subordinate; hurtful”), from obnoxius (“exposed to harm, liable, subject to punishment”), formed from ob- (“to, toward”) and noxa (“hurt, injury”)…

1. The noun meaning equality is borrowed from Middle French parité or directly borrowed from Late Latin paritās (“equality”), from Latin pār (“equal”) and the suffix -tās. The French word is…

It is borrowed from Middle French populace (“the common people”), recorded in French from 1552, from Italian popolaccio (“rabble, riffraff”), also popolazzo. The Italian noun is formed from popolo…

It is borrowed from Latin rapāx (“predatory, grasping, inordinately greedy”), with the suffix -ous, from rapiō (“to seize, snatch”), which comes from Proto-Indo-European *rep- (“to snatch”)…

It is formed from English re- + fine, the obsolete verb fine, to make fine, from the adjective fine in the sense "delicate"; the prefix is perhaps intensive here. Several dictionaries add that it…

It is borrowed from Latin resonāns (“sending back a sound, echoing”), the present participle of resonō (“to resound, to sound again”), formed from re- (“back”) and sonō (“to sound”), from sonus…

It is formed from English side + -ways, which Etymonline describes as side and way with the adverbial genitive ending. The OED compares the earlier sideway and sidewise; an older adverb was sideward…

It is formed from English submiss + -ive. The OED, Etymonline, Merriam-Webster and Klein take the first part as the stem of Latin submissus, past participle of submittō (“to lower, let down, put…

Most dictionaries take it as an unexplained alteration of the obsolete swarty, itself formed from English swart + -y. The OED, revising the entry in 2023, calls the origin uncertain: either that…

It is borrowed from Latin conscius (“knowing something with others; knowing in oneself”), from cōnscīre (“to be mutually aware”), from com- (“with; thoroughly”) and scīre (“to know”) (see science)…

It is of unknown origin. Etymonline mentions the suggestion of Italian aduggiare (“to overshadow”), which would parallel umbrage; a Celtic source such as Welsh dygen “malice, resentment” has also…

It is borrowed from Latin emphasis, from Ancient Greek ἔμφασις (émphasis, “appearance; in rhetoric, significance, implied meaning”), from ἐμφαίνω (emphaínein, “to show, exhibit”), from ἐν (en, “in”)…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin marginālis (“of an edge; written in the margin”), from margō (“edge, brink, border”), stem margin-, and the suffix -ālis, the Latin noun that is also the source of…

It is borrowed from Middle French pathétique (“moving, stirring”), from Late Latin patheticus, from Greek παθητικός (pathētikós, “sensitive, capable of feeling”), from pathētós, liable to suffer…

1. Its origin is unknown. Etymonline suggests it may come from the verb pink “to pierce”, through the notion of scalloped petals, or from Dutch pink “small”, through pinck oogen “half-closed eyes”…

It is borrowed from Middle French volee (“flight”), now volée, recorded in Old French from the 12th century, from Vulgar Latin *volāta (“flight”), a noun use of the feminine past participle of Latin…

It is a compound from English whip + lash. Etymonline records whippes lash, the flexible part of a whip, from the late 14th century. Whip is from Middle English wippen (“to flap violently”), and…

It is formed from English worth + -less, the base being the noun. That noun is from Old English weorþ (“value, price; merit”), and it is cognate with Dutch waard, German Wert and Old Norse verð.

It is an alteration of earlier bragget, probably borrowed from Middle French braguette (“codpiece”) or Spanish bragueta (“codpiece, bracket, corbel”), a diminutive of brague (“breeches”), from Old…

It is formed from English coast + -er, the agent noun of the verb coast in its sense "to go along the sides or border" of something. The verb comes from Anglo-Norman costien, from the source of the…

It is formed from English drum + -er, partly from the noun and partly from the verb according to the OED; Etymonline and the Shorter Oxford derive it from the verb. The OED compares the obsolete…

It is formed from English forge + -ery. The verb is from Old French forgier (“to forge, work metal; shape, fashion; falsify”), modern French forger, from Latin fabricō (“to frame, construct…

It is formed from English kick + -er, an agent noun from the verb. The verb kick, recorded from the late 14th century, is of uncertain origin: it may come from a Scandinavian source, compare Old…

It is borrowed from Latin nāvigātor (“one who sails a ship, sailor”), an agent noun from nāvigō (“to sail, sail over”). The Latin verb is formed from nāvis (“ship”) and agō (“to drive, lead”), from…

It is formed from English subscribe + -er. The verb is from Latin subscrībō (“to write underneath, sign one's name”), from sub- (“under”) and scrībō (“to write”). English had the slightly earlier…

It is an alteration of wolvering, recorded from 1574, with the ending replaced by -ine. The source of that form is obscure. It is apparently formed from English wolf + -ing, using wolv-, the stem of…

It is formed from English boot + leg. The use for illicit alcohol is American; most dictionaries explain it by the practice of hiding a flask or bottle of liquor in the leg of a high boot, and…

It is an agent noun from the verb cool and -er.

It is borrowed from Late Latin dēviātus (“turned out of the way”), the past participle of dēviō (“to turn aside, turn out of the way”), a verb of Augustine and the Vulgate. This is formed from Latin…

It is formed from English eye + ball, named for the shape of the eye. It follows the earlier phrase ball of the eye, which Etymonline dates from about 1400. Johnson (1755) likewise explained it as…

It is borrowed from French fauconnerie, from faucon (“falcon”) and -erie. The American Heritage Dictionary treats the English form as an alteration of the French word, and Dictionary.com as falcon…

It is a contraction of the parting formula “God be with you” or “God be with ye”, with good put in place of God on the pattern of good day, goodnight and other greetings. The OED has “God be with…

The OED takes it as a noun of action from Late Latin liquidō (“to melt, make liquid; to liquidate”), formed on the past participle stem liquidātus, and compares French liquidation. The Oxford…

It is borrowed from Spanish machete (“a chopping knife”), recorded in Spanish from 1550. The Spanish word is probably a diminutive, with the suffix -ete, of macho (“sledgehammer”), which is probably…

It is borrowed from Middle French modelle, modern modèle, from Italian modello (“a model, mould”), from Vulgar Latin *modellus, from Latin modulus (“a small measure, standard”), a diminutive of…

It is borrowed from Middle French mot (“word, saying, motto”), recorded in Old French from about 1000 in the sense "word, utterance". The French word is from Late Latin muttum (“an uttered sound, a…

It is borrowed from Middle French predominant, recorded in French from 1372–4, the present participle of predominer (“to predominate”). The French verb comes from Medieval Latin praedominor (“to…

It is borrowed from Middle French vaste and directly from Latin vastus (“immense, huge; desolate, empty”). The two meanings probably belonged to separate words, with a long and a short a, that…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin viscerālis (“internal”), and, according to Etymonline, also borrowed from French viscéral; the Shorter Oxford takes the first sense from Old French visceral or the…

It is borrowed from Latin biceps (“two-headed”), genitive bicipitis, which in classical Latin also described a mountain with two summits and in post-classical Latin, from 1533 or earlier, a muscle…

It is an alteration of earlier chimical, formed from chimic “of alchemy” and the suffix -al. Chimic is a worn-down form, which came from Medieval Latin alchimicus, probably through New Latin…

It is borrowed from Middle French confident, partly via Italian confidente, from Latin cōnfīdēns (“firmly trusting, self-confident, bold”), the present participle of cōnfīdō (“to have full trust”)…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin embryo, also embryon, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “young animal, fetus”). The OED explains the Latin embryo as a reinterpretation of embryon after the…

It is borrowed from Latin grātificātiō (“obligingness, complaisance”), taken directly or through French gratification, a noun of action from the past participle of grātificor (“to please, oblige, do…

It is formed from English in- + valuable, from valuable in an old sense "able to be valued". Barnhart, Etymonline and Merriam-Webster analyse it instead as the prefix, the verb value and the suffix…