Italian words first recorded in the 13th century

It is borrowed from Latin obscūrus (“dark; obscure”), a learned word. The more popular scuro continues the same Latin adjective. The Latin word is learned in French obscur and Spanish obscuro too…

It is borrowed from Old French passage, recorded in French from 1080, from passer (“to pass”). Wiktionary allows a formation from Italian passare + -aggio as well. Medieval Latin passagium is found…

It is a noun formed from the verb accusare without a suffix (from Italian accusare + -a). The verb, recorded from the 11th century, is a learned word from Latin accūsō (“to blame; to charge in…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *appartenēre, a Vulgar Latin verb formed with ad- on Latin pars (“part”) (genitive ⟨partis⟩). Most sources start instead from Late Latin appertinēre (“to belong…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin articulus (“small joint; division, point”). The Latin word is a diminutive of artus (“joint, limb”), the source of arto; it already had the transferred…

It is borrowed from Latin advocātus (“one called in to help; legal counsel”), the past participle of advocō (“to call to one's aid; to call into court”), from ad- and vocō (“to call”). The LEI finds…

It is inherited from Late Latin barca (“boat”), first found in an inscription from Lusitania of about 200 AD and then in Isidore of Seville, who describes it as the boat that carried goods from…

It is formed from caricare (“to load”): the noun is a deverbal with no suffix, and the adjective is the short form of the past participle, beside the regular caricato. The LEI notes that nouns of…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin cāsus (“fall; event, chance; grammatical case”), from cadō (“to fall”). The grammatical sense was already in Latin, as a calque of Ancient Greek πτῶσις…

It is formed from Italian chiaro + -mente, from the feminine form of the adjective. Wiktionary traces the type to the Latin ablative phrase with mēns (“mind”), here clārā mente (“with a clear…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin cīvīlis (“of a citizen; public; courteous”), from cīvis (“citizen”) with the suffix -īlis. The LEI notes that Latin already used it both for what belongs to…

It is inherited from Late Latin computus (“calculation, reckoning”), through a spoken Latin form *contus. DEI and GDLI instead treat it as a noun formed in Italian from the verb contare, and DELI…

It is borrowed from Latin cōpia (“abundance, plenty”), a learned word. The Latin noun is formed from co- and the stem of ops (“wealth, means”), through an adjective cōps (“well supplied”) with the…

It is inherited from Latin cōpula (“a band, a leash”), inherited from Vulgar Latin *cōpla, with the middle vowel lost. The short form is attested in Latin as the accusative coplam in a papyrus. The…

It is borrowed from Latin effectus (“execution, accomplishment”), a learned word, the action noun of efficiō (“to bring about, accomplish”), from ex- and faciō (“to make, do”). The Latin word has…

It is inherited from Latin facienda (“things to be done”), the neuter plural of faciendus, the gerundive of faciō (“to do, make”). The neuter plural was taken as a feminine singular, as in…

It is inherited from Latin fōns (“spring, source”), from the accusative fontem. The word is found in most Romance languages: Occitan fon, Catalan font, Spanish fuente, Portuguese fonte and Friulian…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin futūrus (“about to be”), the future participle of sum (“to be”), built on the stem of the perfect fuī (“I was”); the noun follows futūrum (“what is to be”)…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin genus (“birth, descent, race; kind”), genitive ⟨generis⟩. Sabatini–Coletti explains the Italian form: it was rebuilt on the stem ⟨gener-⟩ with a final ⟨-e⟩…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin incrēdibilis (“unbelievable”), formed from in- (“not”) and crēdibilis (“believable”), from crēdō (“to believe, entrust”). Latin later derived incrēdibilitās…

It is from Italian in + somma (“sum; substance”), the phrase written as one word. It renders the phrase Latin in summā (“in sum, on the whole”), which stood beside ad summam. DEI cites the Latin…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Late Latin politica, recorded in Apuleius, from Ancient Greek πολιτική (politikḗ) (with τέχνη (tékhnē, “art”) understood), “the art of governing”. The Greek…

It is the feminine of the adjective pratico used as a noun. Nocentini and DEI instead derive it directly from Late Latin practicē (“practical activity”), which comes from Ancient Greek πρακτική…

DELI and Nocentini treat it as a word taken from Latin, borrowed from Latin profŭndus (“deep; bottomless”), from the accusative ⟨profundum⟩. Meyer-Lübke lists it among the Romance outcomes of the…

It is borrowed from Latin promptus (“ready, at hand”), the past participle of prōmō (“to bring out”), from prō (“forward”) and emō (“to take; to buy”). The literal meaning was “brought out and set…

It is formed from Italian ra- + contare, from “contare” in its sense “to tell, relate”, with the prefix “ra-” as a reinforcement, parallel to “ri-” in archaic ricontare. The GDLI analyses the prefix…

It is a noun formed from Italian scusare + -a, from the verb meaning “to excuse”. The verb comes from Latin excūsō (“to excuse, plead in excuse”), formed from causa (“cause; lawsuit”) with the…

It is probably inherited from Vulgar Latin *exparāre (“to prepare (an animal) for cooking by gutting it”), from Latin parō (“to prepare”) with ex-. Arrigo Castellani, followed by DELI, saw in it a…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin splendidus (“bright, brilliant; magnificent”), from splendeō (“to shine, to be bright”) with the adjective suffix -idus. The same Latin adjective gave…

It is inherited from Latin laetus (“glad, joyful; fertile, rich”). DELI and Nocentini explain that the Latin adjective first meant “fertile, fruitful”, a word of the farming world, and that this…

It is a noun formed from the verb caricare (“to load”), which continues Late Latin carricō (“to load a cart”), from carrus (“cart, wagon”). Meyer-Lübke and the LEI think that nouns of this type…

It is inherited from Latin pretium (“price, value”). The Latin /tj/ became the voiceless affricate /ts/, the regular Tuscan outcome. The same Latin word gave the doublet pregio, which Körting…

1. The kick is inherited from Latin calx (“heel”), from the stem “calc-”. The LEI takes “calcio” as a form of the Latin word moved into the “-o” declension, beside calce “heel” in Old Umbrian and…

It is borrowed from Latin confīne (“boundary”), a learned word: the neuter of cōnfīnis (“bordering, having a common boundary”), formed from con- (“together”) and fīnis (“boundary, limit”). Fine…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin Pharus, from Ancient Greek Φάρος (Pháros), the name of a small island off Alexandria in Egypt. There Ptolemy II Philadelphus built in the 3rd century BC a…

It is inherited from Latin aurum (“gold”), pronounced early as “ōrum”: Festus notes that country people called the gilthead fish “orata” after the colour of gold, which they said “orum”. The word…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *eccum inde (“look, from there”), from Latin eccum (“here he is!”) (compare ecco) and inde (“from there; thereafter”). Nocentini explains the final ⟨-i⟩ as an…

It is inherited from Latin salvus (“whole, unharmed, safe”). The same word is French sauf, Occitan salf, Catalan salf, Spanish salvo, Portuguese salvo, Logudorese salvu and Friulian salf; it is…

It is borrowed from Late Latin septimāna (“week”), a learned word according to DELI, the feminine, used as a noun, of septimānus (“of seven”), from septimus (“seventh”). The Late Latin noun is a…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin commissiō, a noun from committō (“to bring together; to entrust; to commit”). Classical Latin used it for the beginning or holding of games and contests and…

It is apparire (“to appear”) with its prefix replaced by s-, which reverses the meaning. Devoto calls it a calque on that verb, with an ⟨s-⟩ of removal in place of the ⟨ad-⟩ of approach. Apparire…

It is borrowed from Late Latin augmentāre (“to increase”), from augmentum (“growth, increase”), from augeō (“to increase”) and the suffix -mentum. It is a learned or half-learned word: the LEI…

It is from Italian bugia (“lie”) + -ardo, as GRADIT, GDLI and Wiktionary analyse it. DELI, Devoto and the TLIO describe it more exactly as the Tuscan adaptation of northern Old Italian bugiadro…

Most sources take the word as borrowed from Old French boter, a form of buter (modern French bouter), or as a loan from Old Occitan botar, of Germanic origin. The Germanic source is usually given as…

It is borrowed from Latin cella (“small room; storeroom”), a learned word according to DELI, Nocentini and Battisti–Alessio. The LEI, however, lists the Old Italian and dialect forms with the…

It is inherited from Late Latin clūdō (“to close, shut”), the Late Latin form of Latin claudō (“to close, shut”), remade on compounds such as inclūdō and exclūdō, where /au/ had regularly become…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin commodus (“of the right measure; convenient”); the noun continues the Latin neuter commodum (“advantage”). The Latin adjective is formed from com- (“with”)…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin continuō (“to join together; to carry on without a break”), a verb formed from the adjective continuus (“uninterrupted, continuous”). Devoto calls the Latin…

It is borrowed from Latin crēdō (“I believe”), the first person singular present of the Latin verb behind credere, the word that opens the Apostles' Creed. GRADIT names the opening of the liturgical…

It is the past participle of disporre, used as an adjective and a noun. DEI and Devoto connect it with Latin dispositus, the participle of dispōnō (“to place here and there, to arrange”), and…

It is borrowed from Latin familiāris (“of the household; intimate”), a derivative of familia (“household”) with the suffix -āris. DEI and Battaglia call it a learned word. The inherited word from…

It is a learned borrowed from Latin fīdūcia (“trust, confidence”), derived from fīdō (“to trust”). The Latin noun is formed on an unattested adjective *fīdūcus, built on the verb as cadūcus…

It is borrowed from Late Latin fīnālis (“final; of boundaries”), from Latin fīnis (“end; boundary, limit”). It is a learned word: in Latin the adjective first belonged to the land surveyors and…

Most etymologists derive it from the verb frettare, which continues Vulgar Latin *frictāre, an intensive of Latin fricō (“to rub”). The same Vulgar Latin verb is continued by Old French freter…

It is inherited from Late Latin genuculum (“little knee”), a variant of Latin geniculum, the diminutive of genū (“knee”). The form with ⟨u⟩, recorded from the 4th century, took its vowel from “genu”…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin importō (“to carry in, bring in; to cause”), formed with in- (“in”) and portō (“to carry”). The older senses, “to bring about, entail” and then “to matter”…

It is inherited from Latin illāc (“that way; there”). The Latin adverb was the ablative feminine of ille (“that”), the source of il, with the deictic particle -ce added. It came from phrases such as…

It is formed from Italian ri- + uscire, with the prefix in its repetitive sense (“to go out again”) or as an intensive. Nocentini starts from the early senses “to come out at a place” and “to have…

It is borrowed from Latin stomachus (“gullet; stomach; taste; irritation”), a learned word. DEI notes that it is learned everywhere, even in the dialects, and Körting says the same of all its…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin terribilis (“frightening”), from terreō (“to frighten, terrify”) with the suffix -bilis. The Latin adjective is found from Ennius on. The same word is…