English words first recorded in the 17th century

It is formed from English elliptic + -al. Elliptic is from Ancient Greek ἐλλειπτικός (elleiptikós, “defective; pertaining to an ellipse”), through New Latin ellīpticus according to the American…

It is borrowed from Latin equester (“of a horseman, knightly”), genitive equestris, with the English suffix -ian. The Latin adjective is from eques (“horseman, knight”), from equus (“horse”), from…

It is borrowed from Late Latin existentiālis, also exsistentiālis (“coming into being, relating to existence”), from existentia (“existence”), the source of existence, from Latin exsistō (“to stand…

It is borrowed from French façade, from Italian facciata (“front of a building”), formed from faccia (“face”) and the suffix -ata, the source of -ade. The Oxford dictionaries describe the French…

It is probably partly borrowed from Spanish gambito, a chess term used by Ruy López in 1561, and partly its source borrowed from Italian gambetto, a tripping up in wrestling (14th century) and a…

It is borrowed from New Latin gastricus (“of the stomach”), formed from Ancient Greek γαστήρ (gastḗr, “stomach, belly”), genitive γαστρός (gastrós); Ayto has the Latin word come through French…

It is borrowed from French glacial (“icy”), and perhaps directly borrowed from Latin glaciālis (“icy, frozen, full of ice”), from glaciēs (“ice”) and the suffix -ālis. The American Heritage…

It is formed from English heir + -ess. The OED notes that the word was apparently introduced in the 17th century. Heir is from Anglo-Norman heir, Old French oir (“heir, successor”), from Late Latin…

It is borrowed from Late Latin iconicus, from Greek εἰκονικός (eikonikós, “pertaining to an image”), from εἰκών (eikṓn, “likeness, image, portrait”) (see icon).

It is borrowed from New Latin lumbāris (“of the loins”), from Latin lumbus (“loin”) and the suffix -āris, the source of the English suffix -ar. The Oxford Dictionary of English and the Shorter…

It is borrowed from Ancient Greek μισογυνία (misogunía), according to Etymonline, Dictionary.com and the Shorter Oxford through New Latin misogynia, from μισογύνης (misogúnēs, “woman-hater”) and the…

It is borrowed from Latin morbidus (“diseased, sick, causing disease, unhealthy”), from morbus (“disease”) and the suffix -idus. Barnhart allows a passage through French morbide but thinks direct…

It is borrowed from Latin narrō (“to relate, recount”), through its past participial stem narrāt-, or else, or at the same time, a back-formation from narration. Barnhart holds the back-formation…

The OED takes it as borrowed from Latin Ōceanicus (“of the ocean”), from Ōceanus (“ocean”) and the suffix -icus, and Dictionary.com as from ōceanicus in Medieval Latin; Etymonline and…

It is borrowed from French parade (“display, show, military parade”), from Spanish parada (“a stopping”) and Italian parata, from Latin parāre (“to prepare, furnish”), which in Medieval Latin also…

It is borrowed from New Latin parameter, also parametrum, found in C. Mydorge's Latin treatise on conic sections of 1631, which defines the parametrum of a conic section. It is formed from Ancient…

It is borrowed from Latin permeātus, the past participle of permeō (“to pass through, penetrate, pervade”), from per- (“through”) and meō (“to go, pass”). Barnhart sees a formation in English…

It is borrowed from French préliminaire and directly New Latin praeliminaris, from prae (“before”) and limen (“threshold”) (genitive liminis) (see limit).

It is formed from recreation and -al.

It is borrowed from French rénal, recorded in Middle French from 1314, and directly borrowed from Late Latin rēnālis (“of the kidneys”), a 5th-century word formed from Latin rēn (“kidney”), plural…

It is borrowed from Late Latin spontāneus (“willing, of one's own free will”), with the ending changed to -ous, formed from Latin sponte (“of one's own accord, willingly”), as in the phrase suā…

It is borrowed from Late Latin stēllāris (“of a star, starry”), from stēlla (“star”) with the adjective suffix that became -ar. The Latin noun is from *sterla, from the Indo-European root of star…

It is borrowed from Late Latin tectonicus, from Ancient Greek τεκτονικός (tektonikós, “pertaining to building”), from τέκτων (téktōn, “carpenter, builder”). Etymonline glosses téktōn also as a…

It is borrowed from Late Latin traumaticus (“relating to wounds”), from Ancient Greek τραυματικός (traumatikós, “of or relating to a wound”), formed on τραῦμα (traûma, “a wound”), the source of…

The origin is unknown or uncertain. The OED suggests that it may come from syllables used in the refrain of songs, comparing “Twittye twitty twatty foole”, the name of an apparently bawdy song…

It is formed from English validate + -ion; the OED compares French validation (16th century), Spanish validación, Italian validazione and Portuguese validação. The verb comes from the past…

It is borrowed from Latin agenda (“things to be done”), the neuter plural of agendum, the gerundive of agō (“to drive, lead, do”) (see agent), from PIE Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”). MWU…

It is borrowed from Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), also carga, from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carricō (“to load on a cart”), from carrus (“wagon”) (see car). The French cognate gave…

It is borrowed from Latin ēruptus (“having burst forth”), the past participle of ērumpō (“to break out, burst forth”). Barnhart considers it a back-formation from eruption, at least in part, which…

It is formed from English fruit + -y. The noun is from Old French fruit, from Latin frūctus (“enjoyment; produce, fruit”), from fruor (“to use, enjoy”). Green's Dictionary of Slang explains the…

It is formed from English ground + water.

It is formed from English out- + burst, after the verb burst out and the older verb outburst. That verb is recorded from Old English, in Ælfric's “Lives of Saints”, and in Middle English as…

It is formed from English relation + -al. Relation is from Anglo-Norman relacioun and Latin relātiō (“a bringing back; a report”).

It is formed from English road + side. The noun road is from Old English rād (“riding, journey”), and its sense of a way for travel between two places is recorded only from the 1590s.

It is borrowed from Dutch slim (“bad, sly, clever”) or Low German slim, from Middle Dutch slim, slimp, slanting, crooked, bad, wrong, from Proto-Germanic *slembaz, oblique, crooked, source also of…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin agentia, from Latin agēns (“effective, powerful”) (accusative agentem), the present participle of agō (“to set in motion, drive; to do, perform”), from…

It is formed from atom and -ic, or from New Latin atomicus, from atomus, indivisible.

It is formed from English colony + -ist, after colonize. The base is from Latin colōnia (“settled land, farm, landed estate”), from colōnus (“husbandman, tenant farmer, settler”), from colō (“to…

It is borrowed from French détérioration, recorded in French from the 15th century, a noun of action from détériorer (“to make worse”), from Late Latin dēteriōrō (“to make worse; to grow worse”)…

It is formed from English down- + turn. Dictionary.com takes it as a noun use of the verb phrase turn down. The verb downturn is formed from down- and the verb turn; the OED compares the earlier…

It is borrowed from Dutch gas, a word coined by the Flemish chemist Jan Baptista van Helmont (1577–1644), probably an alteration of Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “empty space, chaos”), since Dutch g…

It is a noun of action from immigrate, which is from Latin immigrō “to go into, move into”, from in- “into” and migrō “to move”. It is related to migration and emigration.

It is formed from English intimidate + -ion, probably on the model of French intimidation, recorded in French from the 16th century. Merriam-Webster takes the noun directly from French, from Middle…

Most dictionaries take it as borrowed from French médaillon, from Italian medaglione (“large medal”), an augmentative of medaglia (“medal”), which also gave medal through French médaille. The OED…

It is formed from English mis- + conception, after the verb misconceive. The OED notes the earlier nouns misconceiving and misconcept, and Etymonline notes that Middle English had misconceit in the…

It is borrowed from Latin ōscillātiō (“the action of swinging”), from ōscillō (“to swing”) with the suffix -iō, and the verb is from ōscillum (“a swing”). The OED compares French oscillation…

It is borrowed from French ridicule and directly borrowed from Latin rīdiculum (“a joke, a piece of humour”), the noun use of the neuter of rīdiculus (“laughable, funny, absurd”), from rīdeō (“to…

It is a compound from English school + girl, formed after schoolboy; the OED compares the earlier schoolchild. That word is recorded from 1579.

It is formed from English trust + worthy, from the noun trust and the adjective worthy. The OED compares the earlier faithworthy, built the same way.

The adjective is borrowed from Latin undulātus (“waved, having a wavy form”), and the verb, first recorded a few years later, is either a back-formation from undulation or formed from Late Latin…

It is formed from English block + -ade, the verb block with a French-looking ending. The OED, revised in 2014, thinks it was probably modelled on Dutch blocquade (1663, now blokkade) or German…

It is a compound from English court + room.

The current word, the separation of something into its parts, is probably borrowed from French décomposition, from décomposer (“to decompose”), formed from dé- and composer (“to compose”); the OED…

It is borrowed from Latin horrendus (“dreadful, to be shuddered at”) with the English suffix -ous, the gerundive of horreō (“to bristle, shudder, tremble”), which is from Proto-Indo-European *ghers-…

It is borrowed from Late Latin idiōticus (“uneducated, ignorant, unskilled”), in classical Latin "of an ordinary person", from Ancient Greek ἰδιωτικός (idiōtikós, “private, unprofessional…

It is formed from English mis- + management, with mis- meaning "badly, wrongly". The noun management is formed from manage and -ment. The noun is recorded earlier than the verb mismanage, which the…

It is from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “nerve, sinew”) with the suffix -otic, on the model of hypnotic, or of the noun narcotic. The OED compares French névrotique, recorded in 1764 in the sense…

It is from Ancient Greek πάνδημος (pándēmos, “of or belonging to all the people, public”) with the English suffix -ic, modelled on epidemic. The Greek adjective is formed from παν- (pan-, “all”) and…

It first appears in Scots, spelled Scots powny, and is probably borrowed from Middle French poulenet (“little foal”), a diminutive of poulain (“foal”), which comes from Late Latin pullāmen (“young…

It is formed from English positive + -ity. The OED compares the slightly earlier positiveness. The adjective positive is from Old French positif and Latin positīvus (“settled by agreement…