English words first recorded in the 17th century

It is formed from English side + bar.

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin subversivus, a post-classical Latin adjective recorded from the 13th century and in a British source in 1437, formed from Latin subversus, the past participle of…

Most dictionaries take it as borrowed from Medieval Latin aqueus (“watery”), from Latin aqua (“water”), with the English suffix -ous. Barnhart thinks the Medieval Latin adjective was probably formed…

The noun is probably a back-formation from correlation and correlative, or, as the OED explains it, a compound of cor- and relātum (“a thing referred, related”), suggested by the older English…

It is formed from English discretion + -ary. Discretion, recorded from about 1300, is from Old French discrecion and directly from Late Latin discrētiō (“discernment”), which in classical Latin…

It is formed from English dispose + -able. Dispose is from Old French disposer (“to arrange, order”), an alteration, influenced by poser (“to place”), of Latin dispōnō (“to put in order, arrange”)…

It is formed from English fire + arms. The OED compares French arme à feu, recorded in Middle French by 1566, Italian arma da fuoco (1583 or earlier), Dutch vuurwapen (1686) and German Feuerwaffe…

It is formed from English member + -ship.

It is formed from English retrieve + -al. The verb retrieve goes back to the stressed stem of Anglo-Norman retruver, Old French retrover, modern French retrouver (“to find again”), formed from re-…

The act is from New Latin suīcidium, and the person from New Latin suīcīda, both from Latin suī (“of oneself”), the genitive of sē “self”, from Proto-Indo-European *s(w)e- (“self”), with -cīdium “a…

It is formed from English un- + mistake + -able; the Shorter Oxford and Dictionary.com analyse it as un- and mistakable, although the OED's first record of mistakable is slightly later, from 1646…

It is borrowed from Latin vacātus (“emptied, made free”), the past participle of vacō (“to be empty, be free”); the OED and the Shorter Oxford name the participial stem vacāt-. The same verb gave…

It is formed from accurate and the suffix -acy.

It is borrowed from French ajustement (Old French ajostement) or a native formation from adjust and -ment.

It is borrowed from Latin analogus (“proportionate; in post-classical Latin also conformable to analogy”), with the English suffix -ous, from Ancient Greek ἀνάλογος (análogos, “proportionate…

It was first spelled artefact, formed from Latin arte (“by skill”) + factum (“something made”), arte being the ablative of ars (“art, skill”) and factum the neuter past participle of faciō (“to…

It is apparently formed from English bio- + -grapher, after Medieval Latin biographia (“biography”); the OED also compares biographus, recorded from the beginning of the 18th century or earlier…

It is borrowed from French crayon (“pencil, originally chalk pencil”), a diminutive of craie (“chalk”), from Latin crēta (“chalk, clay”), a word of unknown origin. It is no longer thought to mean…

Most dictionaries take it as borrowed from Dutch holster, a word that appears in Dutch at the same time as in English (1678, in Hexham); the OED, Hoad and the Oxford Dictionary of English leave the…

It is borrowed from French identification, probably from identifier (see identify), originally from Medieval Latin identificatio, from identificō.

It is borrowed from French identifier, from identité, the source of identity, and the suffix -fier, -fy. NODE and SOED derive it from Medieval Latin identificō, from Late Latin identitās and Latin…

It is a shortening of pall-mall, the game and the alley it was played in, from obsolete French pallemaille, from Italian pallamaglio, from palla (“ball”) and maglio (“mallet”), from Latin malleus…

It is borrowed from Italian opera (“a work, composition; an opera”), from Latin opera (“work, effort”), a Latin plural taken as a feminine singular, related to opus (“a work”) (genitive operis; see…

It is borrowed from Latin perennis (“lasting through the year or years”) with the English suffix -al, formed from per- (“through, throughout”) and annus (“year”), with the a of annus weakened to e…

It is formed from English point + -y, from the noun. The noun is a merger of Old French point (“prick, mark, moment”) and pointe (“sharp end”), from Latin pūnctum and pūncta, past participle forms…

Its origin is unknown. It was probably one of the clipped words, such as mob and cit, that became fashionable slang after the Restoration, and longer forms with the same meaning, punnet and…

It is formed from re- and act, originally suggested by Medieval Latin react-, the past participle stem of reagō, to do again.

It is borrowed from Latin resiliēns (“leaping or springing back”), the present participle of resiliō (“to jump back, rebound, recoil”), formed from re- (“back”) and saliō (“to jump, leap”). Barnhart…

It is a compound from English ship + yard, with yard in its sense of an enclosed piece of ground.

The OED and the Shorter Oxford take it as formed from English susceptible + -ity, comparing Medieval Latin susceptibilitās, used by Abelard, and French susceptibilité, recorded from the 18th…

It is borrowed from New Latin sympathēticus, from Ancient Greek συμπαθητικός (sumpathētikós, “having sympathy”), from συμπαθής (sumpathḗs, “affected by like feelings”), the source of sympathy. The…

1. The drum signal is an alteration of earlier tap-too, borrowed from Dutch taptoe (“taps shut!”), the call to close the taverns, from tap (“tap of a cask”) and toe (“to, shut”). The Dutch phrase…

It is borrowed from Italian vista (“sight, view”), the noun use of the feminine of visto (“seen”), a past participle of vedere (“to see”), from Latin videō (“to see”). The American Heritage…

It is borrowed from Latin compōnēns (“putting together”) (accusative compōnentem), the present participle of compōnō (“to put together, compose”), from com “together” and pōnō “to put, place” (see…

It is formed from English devote + -ee, after words such as assignee and refugee, in which the suffix came from the French past participle in -é. The OED sees it as a refashioning of the noun…

It is borrowed from Latin diplōma (“a state letter of recommendation; an official document conferring a privilege”), from Ancient Greek δίπλωμα (díplōma, “a folded paper; a letter of recommendation…

It is formed from enjoy and -able.

It is formed from Latin foedus (“covenant, league, treaty”), genitive foederis, and -al, perhaps through French fédéral. Latin foedus is related to fīdō (“to trust”) and fidēs (“faith”), from…

It is formed from English re- (“again”) + mind (“to bring to mind”), a Latin–Germanic hybrid, probably on the model of obsolete rememorate in the same sense.

It is borrowed from French salvage, though Ayto, Collins and Hoad take it from Medieval Latin salvāgium, and the Oxford English Dictionary allows either source. The French word is recorded from the…

The OED takes it as borrowed from Medieval Latin seductivus, recorded from the 12th century, from sēdūcō (“to lead aside, lead astray”), through its past participle, and the adjective suffix -īvus…

It is borrowed from Latin antenna (“sail yard”), a variant of antemna, the long yard of a sail; in Medieval Latin it also meant the feeler of an insect, used in the plural to translate the word for…

It is formed from character and -istic, on the model of Greek χαρακτηριστικός (kharaktēristikós), or from French caractéristique or Medieval Latin characteristicus, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ…

It is borrowed from Latin compēnsātus, the past participle of compēnsō (“to weigh one thing against another, counterbalance”), made of com- (“with, together”) and pēnsō (“to weigh out”), the…

It is formed from English compute + -er, the verb being from Latin computō (“to calculate”).

It is borrowed from French concierge (“caretaker, doorkeeper”), recorded in French from the 12th century, as Old French cumcerges, also concerge, the source of Medieval Latin consergius, found in a…

It is formed from English conduce + -ive, on the pattern of conductive and of words such as abusive, possessive and inventive, formed on a Latin participle stem. The verb conduce is from Latin…

It is borrowed from French confinement, recorded in French from the 16th century, from confiner (“to border; to shut up, enclose”) and the suffix -ment. The Shorter Oxford and Dictionary.com instead…

It is borrowed from Latin continuum (“a continuous thing”), the neuter of continuus (“joining, connecting; following one after another”) used as a noun. The adjective comes from contineō, which in…

It is formed from cylindric and -al, from New Latin cylindricus, from Ancient Greek κυλινδρικός (kulindrikós), from κύλινδρος (kúlindros, “cylinder, roller”) (see cylinder). Merriam-Webster…

It is borrowed from Latin data (“things given”), the plural of datum (“a thing given”), the neuter past participle of dō (“to give”), from Proto-Indo-European *dō- (“to give”). The same Latin form…

It is formed from English dilute + -ion in the view of the Shorter Oxford, Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com. The OED and Etymonline take it instead as a noun of action from Latin dīlūt-, the…

It is borrowed from Late Latin discrīminātiō (“a contrasting, separation, distribution”) (accusative discriminationem), a noun of action from discrīminō (“to divide, separate, distinguish”) (see…

It is borrowed from Latin dissēminātiō (“a scattering of seed, a sowing”), a noun of action from dissēminō (“to spread abroad, disseminate”), which is formed from dis- (“in every direction”) and…

It is borrowed from New Latin ēlectricus (“resembling amber, produced from amber by friction”), coined by the English physicist William Gilbert in his treatise De Magnete (1600), from Latin ēlectrum…

It is from English electric + -ity, first used by the physician Sir Thomas Browne in 1646, from William Gilbert's Modern Latin. Gilbert had used electricus in his treatise De Magnete (1600), from…

It is borrowed from Latin ēlevātor (“one who raises up”), in Modern Latin a muscle that raises a part of the body, an agent noun from the past participle stem of ēlevō (“to raise”) (see elevate)…

It is borrowed from Latin ēmigrātiō (“removal from a place”), which Etymonline, Barnhart, Merriam-Webster and the Shorter Oxford call Late Latin; the OED, in its 2023 revision, finds it in classical…

It is borrowed from Ancient Greek εὐθανασία (euthanasía, “an easy or happy death”), formed from εὖ (eû, “well”) and θάνατος (thánatos, “death”), with the abstract noun ending -ia. Collins and…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin executivus, from exsecūt-, the past participle stem of Latin exsequor (“to follow after; to carry out, accomplish”), the source of execute and execution.