Italian words first recorded in the 10th century

It is inherited from Latin annus (“year”), from the accusative ⟨annum⟩. The word survives in every Romance language: French an, Occitan an, Catalan any, Spanish año, Portuguese ano, Sardinian annu…

1. The pronoun “who, which, what” is inherited from Latin quid (“what”), the neuter of quis (“who”), first written “que” in the Placito di Capua of 960. Nocentini derives only the interrogative from…

1. The noun is inherited from Latin fīnis (“boundary, limit; end”). The same word is French fin, Occitan fi, Catalan fi, Spanish fin and Portuguese fim. Its derivatives came into Italian as learned…

The article and the object pronoun “them” are inherited from Latin ille (“that”) in the feminine plural, with the first syllable lost. Most dictionaries start from the nominative plural ⟨illae⟩…

It is inherited from Latin pars (“part, share”), from the accusative ⟨partem⟩. The word is panromance: French part, Occitan part, Catalan part, Spanish parte, Portuguese parte, Sardinian parte and…

It is inherited from Latin per (“through, across; during; by means of”). In Italian it also took over many uses of prō (“in front of; for”), and Devoto described it as a blend of the two Latin…

It is borrowed from Latin possidēre (“to occupy as owner, to possess”), a learned word according to DELI and Nocentini. Wiktionary treats it as inherited. Nocentini counts Old French posseoir and…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *eccum ille (“behold, that one”), from Latin eccum (“here he is!”) and ille (“that”), in the accusative “eccu illum”. Nocentini explains the compound as a renewal…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *eccum hīc (“look, here”), from Latin eccum (“here he is!”) and hīc (“here”). The first part also survives in ecco. Devoto notes that the parts of the compound kept…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *sapēre, the spoken Latin form, with a second-conjugation infinitive, of classical Latin sapere (“to taste, have a flavour; to be wise”). In Late and spoken Latin…

It is inherited from Latin terra (“dry land, earth; country”). The word is panromance: French terre, Occitan terra, Catalan terra, Spanish tierra, Portuguese terra, Sardinian terra and Romanian…

1. The article and pronoun is inherited from Latin illa (“that”), the feminine of the demonstrative ⟨ille⟩ “that”, in its nominative ⟨illa⟩ and accusative ⟨illam⟩. The demonstrative was already used…

It is inherited from Latin mōnstrō (“to show, point out”), a verb formed from mōnstrum (“portent, sign”). The original sense was “to point out the will of the gods”, but the verb soon passed into…

1. The word for a shoe is of disputed origin. DELI, GRADIT and Sabatini–Coletti derive it from a Germanic *skarpa (“leather pouch”), and Wiktionary gives the source as borrowed from Gothic *𐍃𐌺𐌰𐍂𐍀𐌰…

It is inherited from Late Latin dominica (“the Lord's (day)”), short for diēs dominica (“the day of the Lord”). The adjective Latin dominicus (“of a master; of the Lord”) is a derivative of dominus…

It is inherited from Latin veniō (“to come; to arrive; to happen”). The verb is panromance: French venir, Occitan venir, Catalan vindre, Spanish venir, Portuguese vir, Sardinian bènnere, Romansh…