English words first recorded in the 17th century

It is borrowed from Late Latin indicātor, an agent noun from Latin indicō (“to point out, show”) (see indicate).

It is formed from Latin minimus (“smallest, least”) (see minim) and -al, or from minimum and -al.

It is a back-formation from English pease, which was taken to be a plural. Pease was a singular or collective noun, like wheat or corn, but its final s sound was mistaken for the plural ending, and…

1. The adjective meaning large or fine is of uncertain origin. The American Heritage Dictionary and Barnhart suggest a Scandinavian source, and Klein takes it as Scandinavian, comparing Danish…

It is borrowed from Latin stāgnantem, the present participle of stāgnō (“to be stagnant, form a pool”), from stāgnum (“pool, standing water”). Etymonline and Barnhart also give French stagnant as a…

It is formed from English un- + conditional. conditional goes back through Middle English condicionel and Old French condicionel to Late Latin conditionalis, from condiciō (“agreement; situation”)…

It is formed from English embezzle + -er. Embezzle is from Middle English embesilen, from Anglo-Norman enbesiler (“to make away with, cause to disappear, fraudulently destroy”), recorded from…

It is formed from Latin explōsus, past participle of explōdō, to drive out, reject (see explode and explosion), and -ive.

It is borrowed from French fragrance, an Old French word in the OED, or directly borrowed from Late Latin frāgrantia, from Latin frāgrāns (“sweet-smelling”), the present participle of frāgrō (“to…

It is a compound from English news + paper, first written newes paper.

It is a compound from English out- + look, after the verb look out.

It is formed from English supplement + -ary, and the OED compares French supplémentaire, recorded in 1790, and the earlier supplemental. Supplement is from Middle French suppleement and supplēmentum…

It is formed from English un- + desirable. The adjective desirable is from Old French desirable (12th century), from desirrer, the source of desire. Etymonline notes earlier relatives: undesired…

It is borrowed from Latin armāmentum (“sailing gear, tackle, equipment; in post-classical Latin armour, weapons”), in classical Latin usually the plural armāmenta, from armō (“to furnish with…

It is borrowed from French attitude (17th century), from Italian attitudine (“fitness, disposition, posture”), from Late Latin aptitudinem (“fitness”), from Latin aptus “joined, fitted”, the source…

The OED takes it as apparently formed from English bio- + -graphical, after Medieval Latin biographia (“biography”); Etymonline, Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com take it as biography with the…

It is formed from English exert + -ion, though the OED presents it as if from Latin *exertiō. Exert is from Latin exserō (“to thrust out, put forth”), through its past participle exsertus, and that…

The verb is borrowed from French griller (1668), from the noun gril (“gridiron”); the noun, a gridiron, is from French gril (1685), from Old French greil, earlier grail, an alteration of graille…

It is borrowed from Old French huppe, recorded in Anglo-Norman from 1121–35, which gave the obsolete bird name hoop, later altered to the present form. The French word comes from Vulgar Latin *ūppa…

It is borrowed from Latin nucleus (“kernel, inner part”), also nuculeus, from nucula (“little nut”), a diminutive of nux (“nut”). Merriam-Webster calls it New Latin, and the OED notes that…

It is borrowed from Latin pulmōnārius (“of the lungs”), perhaps under the influence of French pulmonaire. In classical Latin pulmōnārius meant having a lung disease; it meant good for the lungs in…

It is a compound from English sand + stone, so called from what the rock is made of.

It is borrowed from Dutch schets or German Skizze, 17th-century artists' borrowings from Italian schizzo (“sketch, drawing; a splash, squirt”), from schizzare, to splash, squirt, of uncertain…

It is borrowed from New Latin trājectōria, the feminine of trājectōrius (“of or for throwing across”), a word the OED calls medieval or modern Latin; the OED notes that Newton used the feminine as a…

1. The word for the plant part is borrowed from Latin tūber (“lump, swelling, hump; truffle”). The plural of the Latin noun, through Vulgar Latin *tūfera, is also the source of truffle. Most English…

It is from Latin atrōx (“fierce, cruel, gloomy”), in its stem form, with the suffix -ous. Dictionary.com instead derives it from the stem of atrocity. The Latin adjective is compounded of āter…

1. The adjective "infested with bugs" is formed from English bug + -y. 2. The carriage is of unknown origin. The OED finds none of the suggested etymologies convincing: a link with bogie has been…

1. It is probably the same as northern English dialect colk, a core, inherited from Middle English colke, the core of an apple, the heart of an onion (about 1400), also charcoal (early 15th…

It is borrowed from French détachement, recorded in French from 1642, formed from détacher (“to detach, untie”) with -ment. The French verb, earlier Old French destachier, is formed from des-…

It is borrowed from French fatigue (“weariness”), from fatiguer (“to tire”), from Latin fatīgō (“to tire out”), originally to cause to break down, from a pre-Latin *fatiagos (“driving to breaking…

It is borrowed from French impromptu, from the phrase Latin in prōmptū (“in readiness, at hand”) in Latin, with prōmptū, the ablative of prōmptus (“readiness”), from the past participle of prōmō…

It is a compound from English off + side. The OED takes the noun meaning the far side from the adjective off, and the sporting adverb and adjective from the preposition, as Etymonline and the…

It is a noun use of the phrasal verb set back, formed from English set + back. The verbal phrase is recorded from the mid-15th century, first in the sense "to withhold". Backset (1721) was used in…

It is formed from English shab + -y, the noun meaning a scab, later (1630s) also a low fellow. That noun comes from Middle English shabbe (“a skin disease, scabies”), from Old English sceabb (“scab…

It is a variant or alteration from English cacao, probably at least partly by confusion with coco, the coconut palm, although the OED compares the ending with the older spelling cacoa. In…

It imitates the soft murmuring call of doves and pigeons. Skeat and Weekley note an earlier spelling croo, and Weekley compares French roucouler, with the same double form as French verbs for the…

It is borrowed from Italian donna (“lady”), from Latin domina (“lady, mistress”), the feminine of dominus (“lord, master”), and Etymonline traces the Latin noun to domus (“house”), from…

It is a shortening from English pohickory, the colonists' name for a milky liquid made from ground hickory nuts and later for the tree itself. That word is from Powhatan pawcohiccora, also…

It is probably inherited from Middle English hurtilbery (“whortleberry”) (1452–54), altered in form, from hurtil, probably a diminutive of Old English horte (“whortleberry”), and berry. The origin…

It is an alteration of within-door, from the phrase within door, in a building, under the influence of in; it is formed with door.

It is formed from English in- (“not”) + expensive. Expensive, recorded from the 1620s, is formed from expense and -ive according to Etymonline; the Oxford dictionaries trace it to the stem Latin…

1. The adjective is formed from English jerk + -y, from the noun jerk, a sudden sharp pull or movement. The noun comes from the verb jerk, recorded from the 16th century and of uncertain origin…

It was originally slang, probably borrowed from Latin iocus (“joke, jest, sport, pastime”), from Proto-Italic *joko-, from Proto-Indo-European *yek- (“to speak”), the source also of Welsh iaith…

It is formed from English library + -an, or, as the OED and the Oxford Dictionary of English analyse it, from Latin librārius (“concerned with books; as a noun, a bookseller or scribe”) and the same…

The OED takes it as borrowed from Medieval Latin muscularis, recorded from 1545 or earlier, from mūsculus (“muscle”) and the suffix -āris; Etymonline and Merriam-Webster form it from the Latin noun…

It is borrowed from New Latin neurologia, which the OED takes from Ancient Greek νευρολογία (neurología), used by Thomas Willis in a Latin context in his “Cerebri Anatome” (1664); Klein thinks…

It is a compound from English pin + point. The verb is a conversion of the noun.

It is borrowed from French systématique or directly Late Latin systēmaticus, from Ancient Greek συστηματικός (sustēmatikós, “combined in a whole”), from σύστημα (sústēma) (see system).

It is borrowed from Italian violinista, formed from violino (“violin”) and -ista (“-ist”). The OED also names Spanish violinista as a source and compares French violoniste. Klein instead treats it…

It is borrowed from French carton (“pasteboard”) or directly Italian cartone (“strong, heavy paper, pasteboard”), an augmentative of carta, paper (see card, carton), with the suffix -oon.

It is borrowed from Latin corōlla (“small garland, little crown”), a diminutive of corōna (“crown, garland, wreath”), the source of crown. Dictionary.com analyses it as the stem of the Latin noun…

It is borrowed from New Latin orgasmus (“excitement or violent action in a bodily organ”), or, according to several dictionaries, also French orgasme. The OED finds the Latin word from 1652, and the…

It is borrowed from Ancient Greek πρωταγωνιστής (prōtagōnistḗs, “actor who plays the first part; leader”), formed from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”) and ἀγωνιστής (agōnistḗs, “competitor, combatant…

It is formed from English scrutiny + -ize. The noun is from Late Latin scrūtinium (“a search, inquiry”), from Latin scrūtor (“to examine, investigate, search”), from scrūta (“trash, old things…

It is borrowed from Latin status (“condition, position, state, manner”), from the past participle stem of stō (“to stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *sta- (“to stand, make or be firm”). It is a…

It is formed from English un- + leash, with the prefix in its sense of reversing an action, attached to the verb leash, to tie with a leash, which is recorded from the 1590s. The noun leash, a thong…

It is borrowed from Chinese 陽 (yáng), said to mean bright, male, daylight or the sun, as well as positive and the male genitals.

It is borrowed from Chinese 陰 (yīn, “shade, feminine; the moon”), which Merriam-Webster glosses as the dark, feminine principle. Wiktionary notes that the character was first used of shaded places…

It is formed from English aunt + -ie, as a familiar diminutive, and is also spelled aunty. Aunt is from Anglo-Norman aunte, from amita (“paternal aunt”).

It is formed from English back + ground, with back as an adjective. The verb is a conversion of the noun.