English words first recorded in the 17th century

It is formed from English god + parent, after godson, god-daughter and godchild, or after godfather and godmother. The OED compares those two earlier nouns and gossip.

It is formed from English harass + -ment.

It is borrowed from French journaliste, formed from journal and -ist. See journalism.

It is New Latin, borrowed from Latin lens (“lentil”) (genitive lentis) (see lentil), so called from its double-convex shape.

It is borrowed from New Latin thyroidēs, or Middle French thyroide, now French thyréoïde, from an irregular or altered form of Ancient Greek θυρεοειδής (thureoeidḗs, “shield-shaped”), which Galen…

It is medical Latin, borrowed from Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma, “a wound, a hurt”), related to titrṓskein, to wound, from Proto-Indo-European *trau-, an extended form of Proto-Indo-European *tere-…

It is borrowed from Latin absorbēns, the present participle of absorbeō (“to swallow up”), which is formed from ab- (“away”) and sorbeō (“to suck”), from Proto-Indo-European *srebh- (“to suck…

The carriage is named from English Berlin, the city in Brandenburg, where it was introduced about 1670, partly through French berline; MWU notes that it was fashionable there in the late 17th and…

It is borrowed from Ancient Greek διασπορά (diasporá, “dispersion, scattering”), which the OED explains as formed from δια- (dia-) and σπορά (sporá, “sowing, seed”), after διασπείρω (diaspeírō, “to…

It is borrowed from Latin ēmigrō (“to move out of a house or district, to remove, drive out”), on the stem of its past participle ēmigrātus, formed from ē- (“out”), a form of ex-, and migrō (“to…

It is formed from English revolution + -ary, partly after French révolutionnaire.

It is formed from English anonymous + -ity, or, according to Etymonline, from anonym, a nameless person, with the same suffix. The OED, which revised the entry in 2022, explains it as Latin anonymus…

It is borrowed from French contraster, from Italian contrastare “to stand out against, strive”, from Medieval Latin contrāstō, from Latin contrā (“against”) and stō (“to stand”). It is related to…

It is formed from English fore- + ground. The Oxford dictionaries add that it was modelled on Dutch voorgrond, and the Shorter Oxford compares German Vordergrund; Etymonline and Klein also compare…

It is borrowed from Italian solo (“alone; a piece for one voice or instrument”), from Latin sōlus (“alone”), the source of sole “single”.

1. The neck ring is borrowed from French torque, from Latin torques (“a collar of twisted metal”), also torquis, from torqueō (“to twist”). Etymonline and Weekley take it directly from the Latin…

It is borrowed from New Latin dīvergēns (“going apart, diverging”), the present participle of dīvergō (“to go in different directions”), which Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com call Medieval Latin…

It is formed from English increment + -al. Increment is from Latin incrēmentum (“growth, increase; an addition”), from the stem of incrēscō (“to grow in or upon”), which is formed from in- and…

It is formed from English out- + post, the noun post meaning a station or place where one is on duty. In this sense post is from French poste (“place where one is stationed”), from Italian posto…

It is formed from English pepper + mint, the plant being named for its hot, pungent taste, which Johnson described as "mint eminently hot". Etymonline compares Dutch pepermunt and German…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin sporadicus (“scattered”), from Ancient Greek σποραδικός (sporadikós, “scattered”), from σποράς (sporás, “scattered, dispersed”), genitive σποράδος (sporádos), from…

It is a clipping, at different times, from English subordinate, subaltern, substitute, subscription and submarine.

It is borrowed from French volute, from Italian voluta, from Latin volūta (“spiral scroll”), the noun use of the feminine past participle of volvō (“to roll, turn”). The OED, the Shorter Oxford and…

It is formed from English accompany + -ment, probably on the model of French accompagnement. Etymonline, Klein, the Shorter Oxford and the ODE derive it directly from the French noun, which is…

It is a noun use of the phrasal verb break up, formed from English break + up. The verbal phrase, "to separate, dissolve", is recorded from the mid-15th century, first of ploughland and later of…

It is probably borrowed from French consultant, from Latin consultans (“consulting”), the present participle of cōnsultō (see consult); Etymonline describes it as consult and -ant.

It is borrowed from French effronterie, from effronté (“shameless”), from Old French esfronté (“shameless, brazen”). The French adjective is usually traced to Late Latin effrōns (“barefaced…

It is an expressive alteration from English of flappy, which is formed from flap and -y. The OED holds that the voiced b gives the syllable a feebler effect, suited to the meaning. It compares Dutch…

It is formed from English mis- + conduct, from the prefix meaning "bad, wrong" and the noun conduct. The verb was formed in the same way from the verb conduct; the OED compares Middle French se…

The OED takes it as borrowed from Medieval Latin thematicus (“of or relating to a theme”), recorded from 1608 and in logic from 1612; most other dictionaries take it directly as borrowed from…

It was formed from English un- + wanted, the negative prefix with the past participle of the verb want.

It is formed from English appraise + -al, after the earlier appraisement, recorded from the 1640s. The verb appraise is either an alteration of apprize (“to set a price on”) by association with…

It is a compound, formed from English book + case (“box, container”). The first element is from Old English bōc (“book, writing, written document”), and the second is from Anglo-Norman casse, from…

It is borrowed from New Latin centrifugus (“fleeing the centre”) with the English suffix -al. The Latin adjective is formed from centrum (“centre”) and -fugus (“fleeing”), from fugiō (“to flee”)…

It is borrowed from Hindi दिवाली (dīvālī), from Sanskrit दीपावलि (dīpāvali, “row of lights”), formed from दीप (dīpa, “light, lamp”) and आवलि (āvali, “row, line”). The American Heritage Dictionary…

It is borrowed from Persian عید (ʿīd) and its source borrowed from Arabic عيد (ʿīd, “festival, feast”), from Classical Syriac ܥܐܕܐ (ʿīḏā, “festival”) or its Aramaic source, from an Aramaic verb…

It is formed from English pharmaco- + -logy, modelled on New Latin pharmacologia, which is recorded in the title of W. Harris's “Pharmacologia anti-empirica” (1683). Barnhart and Dictionary.com take…

It is a Scottish word, probably formed from obsolete rand, to rant or rave (1601), a variant of rant, and -y. Merriam-Webster and the NODE take rand from obsolete Dutch randen (“to rant”).

It is formed from English revolve + -er. The verb revolve goes back to Latin revolvō (“to roll back, unroll”), from re- (“back, again”) and volvō (“to roll”). The OED compares the earlier revolter…

It is borrowed from German Schamane and partly directly borrowed from Russian шаман (šaman), and the OED notes that the German word is recorded first, in the source of the English text of 1698…

It is borrowed from French symptomatique, or directly borrowed from Late Latin symptōmaticus, from symptōma (“symptom”); Merriam-Webster forms it from the Latin stem with the English suffix -ic. The…

It is formed from English accountant + -ancy. Etymonline and Dictionary.com analyse it as accountant with the suffix -cy. The OED compares the earlier accountantship, which Etymonline records from…

It is borrowed from French algorithme, refashioned under a mistaken connection with Greek ἀριθμός (arithmós, “number”) (see arithmetic), from Old French algorisme, the Arabic numeral system, from…

It is borrowed from Italian broccoli, the plural of broccolo (“cabbage sprout, flowering top”), a diminutive of brocco (“shoot, sprout; protruding tooth; small nail”), from Latin broccus…

It is borrowed from French bureau (“office, desk; originally a cloth covering for a desk”), from Old French burel (“coarse woollen cloth”), a diminutive of bure “dark brown cloth”, of uncertain…

It is from English chopstick, its plural. Most dictionaries derive it from Chinese Pidgin English chop (“quick”) and stick, a loose translation of Chinese 筷子 (kuàizi, “chopsticks, literally 'quick…

It is formed from English copy + -ist, replacing the earlier copist. The OED and Merriam-Webster Unabridged treat it as an alteration of that form, brought closer to the verb. The older noun is from…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin dispensārium, the neuter of the adjective dispensārius used as a noun, although Etymonline takes it from the same word used as a masculine noun, one who dispenses…

It is borrowed from New Latin hepatitis, recorded in post-classical Latin from 1558 or earlier, and its source borrowed from Ancient Greek ἡπατῖτις (hēpatîtis, “inflammation of the liver”), a word…

It is borrowed from Cantonese 金橘 (gam1 gwat1, “golden orange”), from 金 (gam1, “gold, golden”) and 橘 (gwat1, “orange”). The OED, Klein and Partridge describe it as the Cantonese pronunciation of the…

It is formed from English mayor + -al. The noun mayor is from Old French maire (“head of a town government”), originally an adjective meaning greater, from Latin maior (“greater”), the comparative…

It is borrowed from Latin reminīscēns (“remembering”), the present participle of reminīscor (“to recall to mind, recollect”), formed from re- (“again”) and a verb related to mēns (“mind”) and meminī…

It is formed from English slop + -y, from the noun meaning a muddy place or semi-liquid matter. That noun probably goes back to an Old English *sloppe, seen in cusloppe (“cow dung”), and is related…

It is formed from English bankrupt + -cy, which the OED thinks was probably on the analogy of insolvency, with the t of bankrupt kept in the spelling instead of being merged in the suffix.

It is borrowed from Sanskrit चक्र (cakra, “wheel, circle”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to revolve, move round”). The Sanskrit word is related to English wheel, and Klein compares Ancient…

It is borrowed from French foyer (“hearth, home; green room”), from Old French foier (“furnace, stove, hearth, fireplace”), from Vulgar Latin *focārium, the noun use of the neuter of focārius (“of…

It is formed from English in- + conclusive, with the negative prefix. Conclusive is from French conclusif, conclūsīvus, from conclūdō (“to shut up, enclose”), formed from com- (“together”) and…

It is formed from English over- + dose, the noun from the noun and the verb from the verb. The noun is from Old French dose or directly from Medieval Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis, “a…

It is formed from English re- + connect, "again" + "to connect".

It is formed from English skate + -er, an agent noun from the verb. The verb skate comes from the noun, which is from Dutch schaats, from Middle Dutch schaetse; English took the Dutch singular for a…