English words first recorded in the 18th century

It is borrowed from Chinese Pidgin English joss, from Javanese dejos, a word formed in the 16th century from Portuguese deos (“god”), now deus, from Latin deus (“god”). Etymonline traces the Latin…

It is borrowed from Latin iūnctiō (“a joining, uniting”), perhaps influenced by French jonction, from the past participle stem of iungō (“to join”) (see join and yoke), from Proto-Indo-European…

1. The two-masted ship is a clipping from English brigantine, originally a colloquial one. brigantine is from Middle French brigantin, from Old Italian brigantino, perhaps first "a skirmishing…

It is borrowed from French encore (“still, yet, again”), generally explained as from Vulgar Latin *hinc ad hōram (“from then to this hour”), or from Latin hanc ad hōram, in hanc hōram (“to this…

It is borrowed from Late Latin plasma (“a mould, image”), from Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma, “something moulded or created”), from πλάσσω (plássō, “to mould, shape”) (see plaster), originally “to…

It is formed from un- and conscious. The noun, the unconscious, is a loan translation of German das Unbewusste.

It is a compound, from English class + mate.

It is formed from English convergent + -ence, though Etymonline and Klein derive it from the verb converge with the same suffix. convergent comes from the present participle of Late Latin convergō…

It is borrowed from New Latin cystis, with its ending dropped; the Latin form was itself used in English from 1543 to 1758. The OED calls the Latin word medieval or modern Latin, the Oxford…

It is formed from English foreclose + -ure; the Shorter Oxford analyses it as fore- and closure. The verb foreclose is from Middle English forclosen (“to exclude from an inheritance”), from Old…

It is borrowed from New Latin inertia, a specialized use of Latin inertia (“unskilfulness; inactivity, idleness”), from iners (“unskilled; inactive”), the source of inert. Iners is formed from in-…

It is formed from English archaeology + -ical. The OED, which revised the entry in 2021, also allows that it may come from New Latin archaeologicus, the source of the later archaeologic, with the…

It is borrowed from New Latin condominium (“joint sovereignty”), formed from con- (“together, with”) and dominium (“lordship, right of ownership”), on the pattern of words such as convīvium and…

It is borrowed from French connoisseur, an obsolete spelling of modern connaisseur, from Old French conoisseor (“an expert, a judge”), from conoistre (“to know”), from Latin cognōscō (“to get to…

It is formed from English disqualify + -fication, as a noun of action from the verb, although Merriam-Webster and Barnhart analyse it as dis- and qualification. Barnhart suggests it may have been…

It is formed from English anecdote + -al. Anecdote is from French anecdote, or directly from Medieval Latin anecdota, from Ancient Greek ἀνέκδοτα (anékdota, “things unpublished”), the neuter plural…

It is borrowed from French costume, from Italian costume (“fashion, habit, custom”), from Vulgar Latin *cōnsuētūmen, for Latin cōnsuētūdō (“habit, custom”) (accusative cōnsuētūdinem). It is a…

It is formed from national and -ist, from national in a now obsolete sense, patriotic or devoted to one's own country (1711).

It is formed from English out- + patient. The OED compares inpatient.

It is probably an alteration of plash, with an initial s felt as intensive, plash itself probably being imitative.

It is formed from English tide + -al, a hybrid of a native noun and a suffix of Latin origin. The noun tide goes back to Old English tīd (“point or portion of time, season”), and its "time" senses…

It is a shortening from English whiskybae, an earlier form and a variant of usquebaugh, from Scottish Gaelic uisge beatha and uisce beathadh, literally "water of life". The Gaelic phrase is formed…

It is formed from aggress-, the past participle stem of aggredior (“to approach; to attempt; to attack”), and the suffix -ive, or borrowed from New Latin aggressīvus, compare French agressif. Latin…

It is formed from English authentic + -ity. authentic goes back through Old French autentique and Medieval Latin authenticus to Ancient Greek αὐθεντικός (authentikós, “original, genuine…

It is borrowed from French cellulaire and New Latin cellulāris (“of little cells”), from cellula (“little cell, little chamber”), a diminutive of cella (“small room, storeroom”) (see cell).

It is formed from English patriot + -ism. Patriot is from French patriote (“fellow countryman”), from Late Latin patriota (“fellow countryman”), from Ancient Greek πατριώτης (patriṓtēs, “fellow…

It is formed from English physic + -ist, or from physics and -ist in Etymonline, Klein and Dictionary.com; the OED takes its main sense after physics. Physic is from Old French fisike (“natural…

It is formed from English plan + -er, the agent suffix. The OED notes that the verb plan is first recorded slightly later, in 1728 according to Etymonline. Plan is from French plan (“ground plot of…

It is formed from English refine + -ery, after French raffinerie, recorded in French from 1666, first of sugar production. The verb is itself formed from English re- + fine (“to make fine”).

It is an alteration of the earlier tinct, recorded from 1602 in Shakespeare's “Hamlet”, which is from Latin tīnctus (“a dyeing”), from tingō (“to dye, colour”). The OED thinks that tinct may already…

It is borrowed from French bouquet (“bunch of flowers”), in Middle French a thicket, originally a "little wood". The French word is a diminutive from Old Northern French bosquet (“thicket”), a…

It is formed from English breeze + -y. Breeze, a light wind, is apparently from Old Spanish briza (“northeast wind”), and Merriam-Webster takes it as probably from Spanish brisa.

It is borrowed from French chorégraphie (“written notation of dance”), a word first used in 1700 by Raoul-Auger Feuillet in his “La chorégraphie”, formed from Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreía, “dance…

It is formed from architecture and -al.

It is of uncertain origin, but its first users were Irish writers, Sheridan, Swift and Sterne, which suggests an Irish source. It is probably borrowed from Irish bodhar (“deaf, confused, annoyed”)…

It is borrowed from French la crosse (“the hooked stick, the crosier”), the name French speakers in Canada gave to the game, shortened from jeu de la crosse (“game of the hooked stick”). Barnhart…

It is formed from English pay + back, after the phrasal verb pay back, and the OED compares the earlier noun paying back. Dictionary.com takes it as the noun use of the verb phrase.

In the senses relating to ghosts it is formed from English spectre + -al, and in those relating to the spectrum from English spectrum + -al. The OED instead derives it from a presumed Latin…

It is New Latin syphilis, from the title of a Latin poem, “Syphilis, sive Morbus Gallicus” (“Syphilis, or the French disease”), published in 1530 by the Veronese physician Girolamo Fracastoro. The…

It is formed from English ball + room, also written with a hyphen. The first part, a dancing party, is from French bal, from Old French baler (“to dance”), from Late Latin ballō (“to dance”).

It is from Latin ēlūsus (“eluded”), the past participle of ēlūdō (“to elude, frustrate”), with the suffix -ive. Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com instead form it from elusion and the same suffix…

It is formed from English gab + -y, the noun or verb for idle talk with the adjective suffix -y. The OED takes it partly from the verb gab, to talk much, and partly from the noun gab, talk, both…

1. It is formed from kitten with the diminutive suffix -y, perhaps influenced by kitty, a girl or young woman (1500–20, in Dunbar), a pet form of the name Catherine. 2. It is probably formed from…

It is formed from the verb manufacture and -er.

It is an alteration of earlier port folio and porto folio, borrowed from Italian portafoglio (“a case for carrying loose papers”), from porta, the imperative of portare, to carry (from Latin…

It is probably imitative of the sound of a blow, and may be an alteration of thwack; Dictionary.com calls it originally a Scots dialect form of thwack. Partridge takes both as intensive variants of…

It is formed from English bird + -ie, a diminutive; the OED analyses it as bird and the suffix -y. That word goes back to Old English bridd (“young bird, nestling”), a word of uncertain origin. The…

It is from Latin centum (“a hundred”) with the ending of biennial, formed in English. Dictionary.com describes that ending as pertaining to a period of years and taken from biennial, and Klein…

1. The word for a fool is of uncertain origin. It is perhaps ultimately a variant of noddle, the head, and Johnson derived it from noddle or noddy. Dictionary.com suggests noddle with the vowel of…

It is formed from English relate + -able. The verb relate is from Middle French relater (“to report, recount”) and relātus, the past participle of referō (“to bring back”), the source of refer.

It is borrowed from New Latin anaesthēsia, from Ancient Greek ἀναισθησία (anaisthēsía, “lack of sensation, insensibility”), formed from ἀν- (an-, “without, not”) and αἴσθησις (aísthēsis, “feeling…

It is borrowed from French fédération, from Late Latin foederātio, a noun of action from foederāre (“to league together”), from foedus (“covenant, league”) (see federal), from PIE…

It is formed from English golf + -er, from the verb or the noun golf. Golf itself, recorded in Scotland from 1457, is of obscure origin; it is often taken as an alteration of Middle Dutch colf…

It is formed from English pharmacy + -ist. Pharmacy goes back to Middle English fermacie, from Old French farmacie (“a purgative”) and Medieval Latin pharmacia, from Ancient Greek φαρμακεία…

It is formed from English sweet + -ie. The OED takes the base as the adjective and Etymonline as the noun; the OED notes that sweetie in the sense of a confection is recorded earlier than sweet in…

It is formed from English un- + explained, the past participle of explain.

It is formed from English mystic + -ism. The OED compares the later French mysticisme (1804) and German Mystizismus (1800, in the title of a work). The adjective mystic comes from Middle English…

It is borrowed from Latin podium (“raised platform around the arena of an amphitheatre; raised place, balcony”), from Ancient Greek πόδιον (pódion, “foot of a vase, base”), a diminutive of πούς…

It is borrowed from Italian torso (“stalk, stump; core of a fruit; trunk of a statue”), from Vulgar Latin *tursus, from Latin thyrsus (“stalk, stem”), from Ancient Greek θύρσος (thúrsos, “the…

It is borrowed from Italian aria (“air; tune”), literally the atmosphere, which comes, according to Barnhart, through Vulgar Latin *arja, from the accusative of Latin āēr (“air”), from Ancient Greek…