English words first recorded in the 16th century

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…

It is formed from English partner + -ship.

It is borrowed from Middle French recollection (“gathering together; recapitulation; religious meditation”) and its source borrowed from Medieval Latin recollēctiō (“additional collection…

It is formed from re- and union, or taken from French réunion (1540s), from réunir (“to reunite”). The NODE also allows Anglo-Latin Medieval Latin reūniō.

It is formed from English sectary + -an, partly also from sect; the OED's revised entry takes it as formed from sectārius (“follower; member of a religious group”) with the English suffix. The Latin…

It is borrowed from Latin belligerāns (“waging war”), the present participle of belligerō (“to wage war”), from belliger (“waging war”), from bellum (“war”) and gerō (“to carry on, wage”). Barnhart…

It is formed from English boy + -hood. The suffix goes back to Old English -hād (“condition, quality, position”), once a word in its own right, as in ċildhād (“childhood”).

It is borrowed from Spanish coca, from Quechua kúka, also written cuca. G. de la Vega, quoted by the OED and Skeat, wrote that the Indians called the plant cuca and the Spaniards coca. Etymonline…

It is borrowed from Latin cōdex (“tree trunk, wooden tablet, book, account book, code of laws”), a variant of caudex (“tree trunk”). The Oxford Dictionary of English explains the sense development…

It is borrowed from Latin dictātus, the past participle of dictō (“to say repeatedly; to say for writing down; to prescribe”), a frequentative of dīcō (“to say, tell”), from Proto-Indo-European…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin doctōrātus (“the degree of doctor”), the past participle, used as a noun, of doctōrō (“to make a doctor; to become a doctor”). The Medieval Latin verb is formed…

It is formed from English enhance + -ment. The verb, recorded from the late 13th century as Middle English anhaunsen (“to raise, make higher”), comes from Anglo-Norman enhauncer, probably an altered…

It is formed from English foot + hold, from the nouns foot and hold. Etymonline compares the parallel sense development of footing.

The noun is a use of an obsolete adjective of the same spelling meaning made of linden wood, which is inherited from Middle English linden, inherited from Old English linden, formed from Old English…

It is formed from English market + -able, from the verb market, though in the earliest quotations perhaps also from the noun. Johnson simply derived it from market.

It is from English neck + lace, lace in the sense of a cord or string.

It is a compound, from English paper + work.

It is borrowed from Middle French patriote (“fellow countryman”), recorded in French in that sense from about 1460 and as "a person who loves his or her country" from 1561, and partly taken directly…

It is borrowed from French procédure (“manner of proceeding”), from Old French proceder “to proceed”. It is related to proceed and process.

It is borrowed from Latin redundāns (“overflowing, abounding”), the present participle of redundō (“to overflow, be in excess”), which also gave redound; in post-classical Latin the participle meant…

It is a compound from English sea + weed. Before it, Old English had flēotwyrt, "float-wort", glossed as seaweed, and Middle English had sechaf, "sea-chaff".

It is probably of early Scandinavian origin, compare dialectal Norwegian snag (“sharp point, projection, stump, spike”) and snage, Old Norse snagi (“clothes peg”), snaga (“a kind of axe”) and…

It is formed from English un- (“not”) + controllable. Controllable is from English control + -able; Etymonline dates it to about 1600, later than uncontrollable itself.

It is formed from English un- + warranted, the past participle of the verb warrant, and the OED takes it partly as un- with the noun warrant and the suffix -ed. The noun came into Middle English…

It is formed from English young + -ster, which the Shorter Oxford says was suggested by younker, a word from Middle Dutch jonckher (“young nobleman”). The OED compares it with that word and with the…

It is formed from English a- (“on”) + drift, probably after afloat. Weekley and Skeat explain the prefix as standing for on. Drift is a Middle English noun formed on the verb drive.

It is borrowed from Latin apex (“summit, peak, tip, top, extreme end”). In Latin the word also meant the small rod or spike at the top of the cap worn by a flamen, and a helmet's top, a bird's…

The word is of unknown origin. According to the OED it entered literature in the 17th century, apparently from the speech of farmers and gardeners, and writers were at first unsure how to spell it…

It is formed from English burden + -some, and it is also spelled burthensome. The base is from Old English byrðen (“a load, weight, charge, duty”), from Proto-Indo-European *bher- (“to carry”).

It is borrowed from French compliment, from Italian complimento (“expression of respect”), from Spanish cumplimiento, from cumplir (“to fulfil, do what is fitting, be courteous”), from Latin compleō…

It is probably from Middle English creste (“crest, ridge”), that is, the word crest, altered through the variant creaste. Crest comes from Old French creste, from Latin crista (“tuft, plume”). The…

It is borrowed from Latin dēterreō (“to frighten from, discourage from”), from dē- (“away, from”) and terreō (“to frighten”). The OED notes a rare Old French deterrer, which does not seem to have…

It is probably formed from English dis- (“away”) + card (“playing card”), literally "to throw a card away". The noun card comes, through Old French carte and Latin charta (“paper, a writing”), from…

It is borrowed from Middle French embarrasser, also embarasser, which according to the OED is from Spanish embarazar, recorded from about 1460, itself probably from Portuguese embaraçar, formed from…

It is partly borrowed from New Latin enthusiasticus and partly borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐνθουσιαστικός (enthousiastikós, “inspired”), from ἐνθουσιαστής (enthousiastḗs, “one inspired”) or…

It is a compound from English fire + wall. It is also spelled with a hyphen.

1. It is inherited from Old English font, also spelled fant, borrowed from Latin fōns (“spring, fountain, source”), which in Christian Latin also meant the water of baptism (3rd century) and the…

It is from English frame + work.

It is borrowed from Latin inhaerēns (“adhering, closely connected”), the present participle of inhaereō (“to stick in, cling to”), probably also helped by Middle French inhérent. The verb is formed…

It is borrowed from Late Latin insertiō (“a putting in, grafting”), a noun of action from insertus, the past participle of īnserō (“to put in, graft, implant”), which is formed from in- (“in”) and…

It is borrowed from Middle French massacre (“wholesale slaughter, carnage”), related to Old French macecre (“slaughterhouse, butcher's shop”), and of unknown or uncertain origin; Barnhart and…

It is borrowed from Middle French mystérieux, from mystère, mystery, or formed from Latin mysterium (see mystery) and -ous.

It is borrowed from Latin obstrūctus, the past participle of obstruō (“to build against, block up, hinder”), from ob- (“against, in the way of”) and struō (“to pile, build”), from…

It is partly borrowed from Middle French occupant (“one who occupies”), the present participle of occuper used as a noun, and partly borrowed from Latin occupāns (“one who occupies”), the present…

It is borrowed from Middle French oppressif (1365) and its source borrowed from Medieval Latin oppressīvus (“involving or of the nature of oppression”), a word recorded from about 1250 and in…

It is borrowed from New Latin pancreas, recorded in post-classical Latin by 1559, from Ancient Greek πάγκρεας (pánkreas, “sweetbread, pancreas”), from παν- (pan-, “all”) and κρέας (kréas, “flesh…

It is borrowed from Late Latin populātiō (“a people, a multitude”) (accusative populātiōnem), as if from Latin populus (“a people”), the source of people.

It is borrowed from Latin radius (“staff, rod; spoke of a wheel; ray of light”), a word of unknown origin, perhaps related to rādīx (“root”), though de Vaan finds that unlikely. It is a doublet of…

It is borrowed from Latin recurrēns (“running back”), the present participle of recurrō (“to run back, return”), the source of recur. Etymonline also names French récurrent, recorded from the 16th…

It is borrowed from Late Latin spīnālis (“of a thorn or the spine”), from Latin spīna (“backbone; thorn”) (see spine).

The noun is an anglicized form of substratum, borrowed from Medieval Latin substratum (“underlying layer”), which Etymonline assigns to New Latin. The Latin noun is the neuter past participle, used…

It is borrowed from Latin trānsfūsiō (“a decanting, intermingling”), a noun of action from trānsfundō (“to pour from one vessel into another”), which is formed from trāns- (“across, beyond”) and…

It is borrowed from New Latin ūrīnārius, formed from ūrīna (“urine”) and the suffix -ārius; the OED takes it as an unrecorded medieval Latin form, also the source of Italian urinario, Spanish…

It is an agent noun formed from English vote + -er.

It is borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄρχων (árkhōn, “ruler, magistrate”), which the American Heritage Dictionary and Merriam-Webster take through Latin archōn. The Greek noun is the present participle…

It is borrowed from Italian ballone, northern Italian dialect for a large ball (standard Italian pallone), perhaps partly through French ballon, an augmentative of balla (“ball”), of Germanic…

It is formed from English birth + mark. The first element is from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse *byrðr, and the second is from Old English mearc (“boundary, limit; sign, landmark”).