English words first recorded in the 18th century

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…

It is from English geology + -ical. Because its first record is slightly earlier than that of the noun, the OED derives it from New Latin geologia with the English suffix. That Latin word was formed…

It is borrowed from Latin persistēns (stem persistent-), the present participle of persistō (“to continue steadfastly”) (see persist), or formed from persistence.

1. The pudding and coal-dust word is a northern variant from English dough. It reflects a pronunciation of dough recorded from at least the end of the 17th century: a spelling book of 1700 noted…

It is borrowed from Italian finale, the noun use of the adjective finale, final, from Latin fīnālis, of an end, from fīnis, end (see final, finish).

It is from English lever + -age.

It is formed from English mile + -age. Dictionary.com labels it an Americanism of the mid-18th century, and the spelling milage was formerly also used.

1. It is borrowed from Italian tempo (“time”), from Latin tempus (“time, season, portion of time”), the source of temporal. Barnhart notes that it is a doublet of the grammatical noun tense. 2. It…

It is borrowed from Italian trio, partly through French trio, formed from tri- (“three”), from Latin trēs (“three”) (see three), on the pattern of duo.

It is borrowed from French chute (“fall”), an alteration of Old French cheoite (“a fall”), the feminine past participle of cheoir (“to fall”) used as a noun, reshaped after the other past participle…

It is borrowed from Italian duetto (“short piece for two voices”), a diminutive of duo (“duet”), which comes from Latin duo (“two”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwo- (“two”). The Shorter Oxford allows…

The OED, Etymonline and Klein take it as borrowed from French évasif, formed on Latin ēvās-, the past-participial stem of ēvādō (“to go out, escape”), from ē- and vādō (“to go”). Other dictionaries…

It is formed from English fall + out, after the phrasal verb fall out; for the sense "quarrel" the OED compares the earlier noun falling-out.

It is borrowed from Latin inhālō (“to breathe upon”), formed from in- (“in, upon”) and hālō (“to breathe out”); the current sense arose, in French as in English, from taking the word as the opposite…

1. The slope is borrowed from French rampe, a back-formation from ramper (“to climb, slope”), itself from Frankish *rampōn. 2. The verb is inherited from Middle English rampen (also raumpen)…

It is borrowed from Latin sparsus (“scattered”), the past participle of spargō (“to scatter, sprinkle, strew”). According to de Vaan, the Latin verb comes from Proto-Italic *sparg- and…

1. The word for a small child is of uncertain or unknown origin, first recorded in Scotland and originally a dialect word. Barnhart suggests it may be a shortened form of totter, and Collins and…

It is borrowed from Latin appellātus (“appealed to, summoned”), the past participle of appellō (“to address, call upon, appeal to, name”), the source of appeal, with the English suffix -ate…

It was formed from English text + book in English, from text in the sense of an authoritative writing.

It was coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels (1726) as the name of a race of brutish creatures in human form, a made-up name probably meant to suggest disgust.

It is borrowed from New Latin androides, formed from Greek Ancient Greek ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”), stem andr-, and -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like”), from εἶδος (eîdos, “form, shape”). Collins traces it to Late…

It is formed from English cohesion + -ive, or, as the OED and Etymonline put it, from cohaes-, the past participle stem of Latin cohaereō (“to stick together”), with the suffix -ive. The Latin verb…

It is formed from English in- + organic. The OED compares French inorganique and the earlier English inorganical, which Etymonline dates in this sense to the 1670s.

It is formed from English jack + ass, the first element in its sense "male (of animals)". The second element continues Old English assa (“he-ass”). The OED notes that the Australian name of the…

It is borrowed from French manipulation, from manipule (“apothecary's handful”), from Latin manipulus (“handful, sheaf”), from manus (“hand”) and the root of pleō (“to fill”).

It is from Latin proximus (“nearest, next”), the superlative of prope (“near”), with the English suffix -al. It is related to proximate and proximity.

It is formed from English psycho- + -logist, after psychology; other dictionaries simply derive it from psychology and -ist. Psychology is from New Latin psychologia, probably coined in 16th-century…

It is formed from renew and -able.

It is borrowed from Dutch rooster (“table, list; originally gridiron”), from Middle Dutch roosten, to roast, probably from the grid of parallel lines drawn on paper to make a list.

It is borrowed from Japanese 侍 (samurai, “warrior, knight; guard”), a variant of さぶらい (saburai), the noun of a verb meaning "to be in attendance, to serve". The American Heritage Dictionary analyses…

1. The verb meaning to slap is probably imitative of the sound of a slap. The American Heritage Dictionary and the Oxford Dictionary of English call it perhaps imitative. Weekley compared Portuguese…

It is formed from English stationer + -y, first in the phrase “stationery wares”, the articles sold by a stationer, recorded from about 1680. The OED suggests that the word may have arisen when…

It is borrowed from French terrain (“piece of earth, ground, land”), from Vulgar Latin *terrānum, an alteration of Latin terrēnum (“land, ground”), the neuter of terrēnus (“of the earth”) (see…

It is formed from English tight + -en, from the adjective tight and the verb-forming suffix. Etymonline notes that the earlier verb was simply tight. The adjective tight is, according to the OED…

It is formed from English transmit + -er. The verb transmit, recorded from about 1400, comes through Middle English transmitten from Latin trānsmittō (“to send across, transfer”), from trāns-…

It is borrowed from French troubadour, from Old Occitan trobador, from trobar (“to find; earlier, to invent a song, compose in verse”), perhaps from Vulgar Latin *tropō (“to compose, sing”)…

It is formed from English un- + important. The base adjective is from Medieval Latin importāns, the present participle of importō (“to be significant”), from Latin importō (“to bring in”), from in-…

It is from merge, on the analogy of Anglo-French infinitives used as nouns, such as waiver.

It is borrowed from Latin oculus (“eye”), which in classical Latin could also mean a bud, the knob at the centre of the spiral scroll on a capital, and a marking like an eye; the American Heritage…

It is an anglicized form of the earlier salon, borrowed from French salon, with the ending of words such as balloon (see -oon). The French word is from Italian salone (“large hall”), an augmentative…

It is borrowed from Latin stimulāns (“goading, urging on”), the present participle of stimulō (“to prick, goad, urge”), which is from stimulus (“goad, spur”). Etymonline takes the adjective from…

It is formed from copy and right.

It is formed from English joke + -er.

It is borrowed from Latin stylus, a variant spelling of stilus (“stake; pointed writing instrument”), the source of style. Hoad and the Shorter Oxford call the spelling an error. It was influenced…

It is formed from English un- + attractive, with the negative prefix un- meaning "not".

It is a borrowing from Hindi, probably through Portuguese bandana, from the Hindi name of a way of tie-dyeing cloth and of cloth dyed that way, from बाँधना (bā̃dhnā, “to tie”), from Sanskrit बध्नाति…

It is formed from English depend + -able. Depend is from Old French dependre (“to hang from, hang down”) and directly from Latin dēpendeō (“to hang from; to be dependent on”), from dē- (“from…

It is formed from English philanthropy + -ist. Philanthropy is from Late Latin philanthrōpia, from Ancient Greek φιλανθρωπία (philanthrōpía, “love of humankind, benevolence”), from φιλάνθρωπος…

It is formed from English short + list. The verb is a conversion of the noun.

It is borrowed from Italian soprano (“the treble; literally high”), from sopra (“above”) and the adjective suffix -ano, from Latin suprā (“above, over”), a form of super (“above, over”). Klein and…

It is formed from advise and -ory.

It is a clipping of acute, in its sense “keenly perceptive, shrewd”.

It was formed from English geo- + -logy in English, partly after geologia (“the study of the earth”), from Ancient Greek γῆ (gê, “earth, land”) and -λογία (-logía). In Medieval Latin geologia had…

It is a compound from English hair + line, the second element being line in the sense of a cord or rope.

It is borrowed from New Latin ultimātum, the noun use of the neuter of Late Latin ultimātus (“last, final”), past participle of ultimō (“to come to an end, be final”), from Latin ultimus (“last…

It is a back-formation from collapsed (early 17th century), from medical Latin collapsus, the past participle of collābī (“to fall together”), from com- (“together”) and lābī (“to fall, slip”) (see…

It is the plural of earning, the verbal noun of earn.

It is borrowed from Latin persōna (“mask; character, role”), the word that also gave, through Old French persone, person and parson. The Latin noun first meant a mask, especially one worn by an…

It is borrowed from Latin intolerāns (“not enduring, impatient; intolerable”), formed from in- (“not”) and tolerāns (“enduring”), the present participle of tolerō (“to bear, endure”)…

It is formed from English accessible + -ity, but Etymonline allows that it may instead come from French accessibilité, which the OED records from 1630; the OED also compares Late Latin…