English words first recorded in the 17th century

It is borrowed from French romantique (“pertaining to romance”), from romant “a romance”, an oblique case or variant of Old French romanz (“verse narrative”), the source of romance. SOED explains it…

It is borrowed from French roulette (“small wheel”), a diminutive formed with -ette from rouelle (“small wheel”), itself a diminutive of roue (“wheel”), from Latin rota (“wheel”). The French word…

It is formed from English topo- + -logy, from Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “place”) and -λογία (-logía, “study of”). Merriam-Webster treats it as a word of the International Scientific Vocabulary…

It is borrowed from Latin complacēns (“very pleasing”), the present participle of complaceō (“to be very pleasing, to please greatly”), formed from the intensive prefix com- and placeō (“to…

It is borrowed from French déférence, recorded in French from the 16th century, formed from déférer (“to yield, comply”) and -ence. The French verb, Old French deferer in the 14th century, is the…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin diabeticus (“a person with diabetes; of diabetes”), formed from Latin diabētēs (“siphon”), in later Latin also the disease, with the suffix -icus. The Latin word…

It is borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐσωτερικός (esōterikós, “belonging to an inner circle”), through a Latinized form, Late Latin esotericus in Merriam-Webster. The Greek adjective is formed on…

It is formed from English im- + moral, with the negative prefix in- in its assimilated form. The OED compares French immoral, recorded in the 18th century in Raynal. Moral is from Old French moral…

It is formed from English insolvent + -ency. Merriam-Webster takes it instead as probably from Medieval Latin insolventia, formed from the Latin negative prefix, the participle solvēns and the…

Its origin is uncertain and disputed. The word is first found in 17th-century English writings about Jamaica. The OED suggests that it may ultimately be a borrowing of Lokono maga (“mahogany”)…

It is formed from English millennium + -al, from the stem of millennium; the OED describes it as a borrowing of New Latin millennium combined with the English suffix. The Latin noun was formed from…

It is borrowed from French pâté (“pie, pasty”), altered in English. The OED sees the English suffix -y substituted for the French ending, and the Shorter Oxford and the Oxford Dictionary of English…

It is borrowed from New Latin pendulum (“a free-hanging body”), recorded in 1643 in the title of a work, the neuter of Latin pendulus (“hanging down”) used as a noun, from pendeō (“to hang”), which…

It is formed from English retrospect + -ive, after Latin. The OED and Merriam-Webster take the first part directly from Medieval Latin retrospectus, past participle of retrospiciō (“to look back”)…

The OED takes it from a Latin type borrowed from Medieval Latin *simultāneus, formed on Latin simul (“at the same time”), probably after mōmentāneus (“momentary”); Etymonline also derives it from…

It is formed from English symmetry + -ic, after geometric; the OED compares symétrique, earlier symmetrique, from 1529. Symmetry is from symmetrie or symmetria, from Ancient Greek συμμετρία…

It is formed from English under- + side, or, in the OED's second analysis, from the adjective under and side. Similar formations are Dutch onderzijde, Danish underside and German Unterseite.

It is formed from English un- + notice + -ed, that is, the past participle of the verb with the negative prefix. The verb is formed from the noun, which is from Anglo-Norman notice, from Latin…

It is borrowed from Italian viva (“(long) live!”), the third person singular present subjunctive of vivere (“to live”), from Latin vīvō (“to live”). Spanish has the same form, Spanish viva, from…

It is borrowed from French adhésif (“sticky”), recorded in Middle French from 1478, and directly borrowed from Medieval Latin adhaesīvus (“adhering, sticky”), recorded from the 12th or 13th century…

It is formed from English agriculture + -al.

It is formed from English attribute + -able. The verb attribute comes from Latin attribūtus, the past participle of attribuō (“to assign, allot; ascribe, impute”), formed from ad (“to”) and tribuō…

It is formed from English bi- + valve. Valve is from Latin valva (“section of a folding door”). Weekley took the word as a borrowing from French.

It is from complex with the suffix -ity, compare French complexité.

It is formed from English fertilize + -er. The verb fertilize is formed from English fertile + -ize, perhaps after French fertiliser; the OED compares the French verb (1558), fertilizar (1454) and…

It is borrowed from Latin fissilis (“that may be split”), from fissus (“split”), the past participle of findō (“to cleave, split”), with the suffix -ilis. Etymonline traces the verb to…

It is borrowed from French grille (“grating”), from Old French greille (“gridiron”), also graille, from Vulgar Latin *grātīcula, a form of Latin crātīcula (“gridiron; fine wickerwork”), a diminutive…

It is borrowed from Latin igneus (“of fire, fiery”), from ignis (“fire”), with the suffix -ous. The Latin noun is from Proto-Indo-European *egni- (“fire”), which de Vaan reconstructs as *h₁n̥gʷ-ni-…

It is borrowed from French philanthropique, from Ancient Greek φιλάνθρωπος (philánthrōpos, “loving mankind”), formed from philo-, loving, and anthropo-, mankind. Etymonline traces the French…

1. The adjective meaning pinkish is formed from English pink + -y. 2. The little finger is probably borrowed from Dutch pinkje (“little finger”), which in the dialects of Holland has the form…

It is formed from English protect + -ive.

1. The pound is of uncertain or unknown origin. The OED suggests that it may be Latin quid (“what, something”), the neuter of quis (“who”), taken in English to mean one's means or wherewithal…

It is borrowed from French risque (“hazard, danger”), from Italian risco, also rischio, from riscare (“to run into danger”), also rischiare, a word of uncertain origin. Klein derives it from Vulgar…

It is borrowed from Ancient Greek τριλογία (trilogía, “a series of three related tragedies”), from τρι- (tri-, “three”) and λόγος (lógos, “story, speech”) (see -logy).

It is formed from English water + proof, the second part being the adjective proof, "impenetrable, able to resist", which is often used as the second element of compounds. The OED compares the…

1. The odd job is inherited from Middle English char, also cherre and chare, inherited from Old English cierr (“a turn, occasion”), also cerr and cyrr, the noun of cierran (“to turn”). It goes back…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin conceptuālis, recorded in 1648, from Latin conceptus (“a collecting, gathering, conceiving”), and the suffix -ālis; the noun comes from concipiō (“to take in…

The OED takes it as borrowed from New Latin consensualis, recorded from 1584, from classical Latin consēnsus (“agreement, accord”) and the suffix -ālis. Other dictionaries analyse it as consensus…

It is borrowed from French contour (“circuit, circumference, outline”), from contourner (“to go around”), and in its artistic sense it matches Italian contorno (“circuit, outline”). Many…

It is borrowed from French endémique, or from New Latin endēmicus, formed from Ancient Greek ἔνδημος (éndēmos, “native, dwelling in a place”), from ἐν (en, “in”) and δῆμος (dêmos, “people…

It is formed from English fire + power. The OED's first two records are translations from German: in 1662, of Jakob Böhme, and in 1871, of a military work, where it renders German Feuerkraft.

It is a compound of home and work.

It is borrowed from Latin irrītābilis (“easily excited”), from irrītō (“to excite, provoke, annoy”) and the suffix -bilis. According to Etymonline and the American Heritage Dictionary it is also…

It is formed from English mile + stone. The mile goes back through Old English mīl to Latin mīlia (“thousands”), the plural of mīlle (“a thousand”), and stone to Old English stān, from…

It is formed from out- and line.

It is borrowed from Persian شال (šāl), which reached English through Urdu شال (šāl) and other languages of India. Klein, Hoad and the Oxford Dictionary of English take the Persian word as probably…

It is borrowed from Ancient Greek στοχαστικός (stokhastikós, “able to guess, conjecturing”), from στοχάζομαι (stokházomai, “to aim at a mark; to guess, conjecture”), from στόχος (stókhos, “aim…

It is formed from English un- + sustainable, from the negative prefix and the adjective, and was first modelled on French insoutenable, which stands in the French passage translated in the first…

It is borrowed from Spanish vaynilla, the older spelling of vainilla (“little pod”), later reinforced by the botanical name New Latin Vanilla. Spanish vainilla is a diminutive of vaina (“sheath…

It is borrowed from Latin ancillāris (“of or relating to a female slave or maidservant”), from ancilla (“maidservant, handmaid”) and the suffix -āris. Ancilla is a feminine diminutive of anculus…

It is borrowed from Latin cōnstrūctus, past participle of cōnstruō, to pile together, build up, from con-, together, and struō, to pile up, build (see structure). It may also be a back-formation…

It is borrowed from French incompétence, recorded in French from 1549, in Robert Estienne, and formed there from in- (“not”) and compétence, after incompétent. Etymonline takes it as borrowed from…

It is borrowed from Late Latin monētārius (“of a mint, of money”), perhaps through French monétaire, from Latin monēta (“mint, coinage”) (see money, mint).

It is borrowed from Latin nexus (“the action of binding; a bond, tie; a connected group”), a noun formed from nectō (“to bind, connect”) with the suffix of verbal nouns -tus. In Roman law the word…

Most dictionaries take it as borrowed from French presentiment, an obsolete spelling of pressentiment, from pressentir (“to have a foreboding”), from Latin praesentiō (“to sense beforehand”), from…

It is formed from English transition + -al. The noun transition is from Latin trānsitiō (“a going across or over”), from trānseō (“to go or cross over”).

It is borrowed from New Latin zoologia (“science of animals”), recorded in Latin from 1630 and often in the titles of works from 1632, formed from zoo- and -logia. Barnhart, Hoad and Klein derive…

It is formed from English baro- + -meter, that is, from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”) and μέτρον (métron, “measure”). Etymonline traces the Greek noun to a suffixed form of…

It is borrowed from New Latin bibliographia (“writing of books; description of books”), recorded in Latin from 1552, or directly from Ancient Greek βιβλιογραφία (bibliographía, “the writing of…

It is borrowed from French champagne, short for vin de Champagne (“wine of Champagne”), from the name of the former province of Champagne in north-eastern France, where it was first made, from Late…