Italian words first recorded in the 14th century

It is from Italian caro + -ino, the affectionate diminutive of the adjective meaning “dear”. The base word is from Latin cārus (“dear; costly”), found in every Romance language except Romanian…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Medieval Latin interesse, the infinitive of a Latin verb meaning “to be between; to take part; to matter”, used as a noun. The verb is a compound of inter-…

It is from Italian ogni (“every”) + uno (“one”), first written as a phrase and later as one word. ogni is from Latin omnis (“all, every”), and uno is ūnus (“one”). De Vaan traces the Latin adjective…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Medieval Latin registrum. The Medieval Latin noun, which seems to have been used first, around 600, for the collected letters of Gregory the Great, was formed…

It is borrowed from Late Latin magīa, from Ancient Greek μαγεία (mageía, “the lore of the Persian magi; magic”). The Greek noun is derived from μάγος (mágos, “magus”), a borrowing of Old Persian…

It is the feminine of offerto, the past participle of offrire (“to offer”) (in its older form “offerire”), used as a noun. Wiktionary allows that it may also continue a Late or Medieval Latin noun…

It is a verb formed from molle “soft, yielding”, so first “to slacken”. Nocentini counts it as an Italian formation of Romance origin.

It is borrowed from Old French estrangier (“foreigner”) and Old Occitan estranger, derivatives of estrange (“foreign, strange”) (modern French étranger and French étrange). The French adjective…

It is the present participle of assistere (“to be present; to help”), used as an adjective and a noun: from Italian assistere + -ente. The verb is a learned borrowing of Latin adsistō (“to stand by…

It is formed from Italian assoluto (“absolute”) + -mente. The adjective is a learned word, Latin absolūtus (“free, complete”), the past participle of absolvō (“to release, set free”). Latin already…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin basis (“base, pedestal”), which Latin had taken as a technical term from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis, “step, gait; foot; base”). The Greek noun comes from…

It continues inherited from Vulgar Latin *in dē retrō, a phrase made of Latin in (“in”), dē (“from”) and retrō (“backwards, behind”). Wiktionary and Gabrielli describe it instead as formed in…

It is borrowed from Latin īnfōrmātiō (“formation of an idea, notion”), from īnfōrmō (“to give shape to; to form an idea of”), from in- and fōrma (“shape”). Devoto–Oli and Sabatini–Coletti treat it…

It is borrowed from Old French engleis (“English”), a 12th-century French word for what belongs to the Angles. The French word is formed on the people's name, Old English Engle (“the Angles”), Latin…

It is borrowed from Latin initiō (“to initiate into the mysteries; begin”), a learned word, a verb formed from initium (“beginning”). Devoto–Oli derives it instead from inizio. The Latin verb first…

It is a learned borrowed from Latin līberō (“to set free”), derived from the adjective līber (“free”). DELI dates it to Dante (1304–1308). The Latin verb also lived on in popular use with the…

It is borrowed from Latin magicus (“magical”), a learned word, from Ancient Greek μαγικός (magikós), an adjective formed on μάγος (mágos, “magus, sorcerer”). The Latin adjective was itself taken…

It is borrowed from Late Latin māteriālis (“of matter, material”), a learned word recorded in Latin in Macrobius. The Latin adjective is formed from māteria (“matter; timber”) with the suffix -ālis…

It is borrowed from Latin opportūnitās (“fitness, convenience; favourable occasion”), a learned word. The Latin noun is formed from opportūnus (“suitable, convenient”) with the suffix -tās. The…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin obtineō (“to hold firmly; occupy; obtain”), from ob- (“before, against”) and teneō (“to hold”). The stem vowel was remade on the model of tenere. Wiktionary…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Late Latin possibilitās (“possibility”), from Latin possibilis (“possible”) (see possibile) with the suffix -tās.

It is borrowed from Latin relātiō (“a bringing back; report; relation”), a learned word, from relātus, the past participle of referō (“to bring back, report”). The Latin noun meant both “a…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin restituere (“to set up again, restore; give back”), moved from the Latin third conjugation in ⟨-ere⟩ to the Italian verbs in ⟨-ire⟩. The Latin verb is a…

It is inherited from Latin russus (“red, red-haired”). In Italy this word won out over classical rubeus, from the same root, as the ordinary name of the colour, while its derivative russeus, already…

It is from Italian suora + -ella, a diminutive made on the model of fratello beside frate. Between Latin and Italian, Migliorini observed, diminutives of kinship words often replaced their bases, as…

It is inherited from Latin tardē (“slowly; late”), the adverb of tardus (“slow”), originally an instrumental case form. Sabatini explains the final /i/ as the ending felt to be typical of adverbs…

1. The adjective is inherited from Latin terrēnus (“of earth, earthly, terrestrial”), a derivative of terra (“earth, land”). Nocentini notes that the Latin adjective is well represented in the…

It is inherited from Late Latin titta (“teat, nipple”), a word of children's speech of expressive origin. Similar words are found in very many languages: Ancient Greek τίτθη (títthē, “nurse”)…

It is borrowed from Latin titulus (“placard, inscription; title”), a learned word, though DELI notes popular reflexes and place names in Italy. The Latin word first named the placard carried on a…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin officium (“duty, service; post, function”). The Latin noun is a contraction of opificium (“the carrying out of a work”), from opifex (“craftsman”), a…

It is from Italian ultimo (“last”) + -mente. The adjective ultimo is a learned borrowing of Latin ultimus (“farthest, last”), the superlative of *ulter (“beyond”), related to oltre. The adverb…

It is a learned borrowing, borrowed from Latin ultimus (“farthest, last”). The Latin word is the superlative of a comparative stem seen in ulterior (“farther”), from the archaic adverb uls…

It is borrowed from Latin ūniversitās (“the whole, totality”), a learned word. The Latin noun is formed from ūniversus (“whole, entire”), literally “turned into one”, from ūnus (“one”) and versus…

It is borrowed from Latin ūniversus (“all together, whole”), a learned borrowing; the noun is the Latin neuter used as a noun, ūniversum (“the whole world”). The Latin adjective is a compound of…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin vēlōx (“swift, quick”). The same Latin word gave French véloce and Spanish veloz. With it came velocità, from Latin vēlōcitās (“speed”). The origin of the…

It is borrowed from Latin vēlōcitās (“speed”), a learned word, from the accusative vēlōcitātem. The Latin noun is derived from vēlōx (“swift, quick”) with the suffix -tās, and Italian has the…

It is borrowed from Latin impediō (“to shackle the feet; to hinder”), from in- and pēs (“foot”), properly “to put fetters on the feet”. Zingarelli and the GDLI call it a learned word. In Latin the…

It is borrowed from Late Latin negātīvus (“that denies”), formed from negō (“to deny, refuse”) with the suffix -īvus. In the photographic sense it came through English negative. The Latin verb is…

It is the plural of occhiale, used as a noun, an adjective meaning “of the eye” formed from Italian occhio + -ale. Byzantine Greek borrowed it as ὀκκιάλι (okkiáli), the source of Modern Greek κιάλι…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin participō (“to make a sharer; to share in”). The Latin verb is formed from particeps (“sharing, partaking”), a compound of pars (“part”) and capiō (“to…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Late Latin particulāris (“relating to a part”), from Latin particula (“small part, particle”), the diminutive of pars (“part”). The Latin adjective, used by…

It is from Italian s- + caricare (“to load”), with the prefix in its sense of removal. Meyer-Lübke listed it under Vulgar Latin *discarricāre, with Romanian descărca, French décharger, Occitan…

It is a noun formed from the verb tagliare (“to cut”) without a suffix, a deverbal like ritaglio from ritagliare. The Medieval Latin of Bologna already has the plural Medieval Latin taglis in 1295…

It is inherited from Latin tē (“you”), the accusative and ablative of Latin tū (“you”). It is panromance: French toi, Romansh tai, Occitan te, Catalan te, Sardinian te and Romanian tine continue it…

It is inherited from Latin atomus (“atom; moment”), in its popular development, from Ancient Greek ἄτομος (átomos, “indivisible”), and so a doublet of the learned atomo. The sense “moment” already…

It is borrowed from Latin capāx (“able to hold; capable”), a learned word, from capiō (“to take, to hold”) with the suffix -āx. Devoto compares edāx (“greedy”) beside the verb for “to eat”. The…

It is the form ci takes before the unstressed pronouns ⟨lo⟩, ⟨la⟩, ⟨li⟩, ⟨le⟩ and the particle ⟨ne⟩, both as the pronoun “us, to us” and as the adverb “there”. Tommaseo compared it with me and te in…

It is borrowed from Latin daemōn (“spirit”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “deity, protective spirit; dispenser”). DELI and the Zingarelli derive the Greek word, with a question mark, from…

It is borrowed from Latin exāmen (“tongue of a balance; weighing, examination”), a learned word. The Latin noun first meant the pointer of a pair of scales, and so the act of weighing and testing…

It is formed in Italian from pazzo (“mad”), from Italian in- + pazzo + -ire, with the prefix of movement into a state, like impazzare beside it. Devoto–Oli takes the prefix as in- of the same kind…

The feminine incinta, the usual form, continues inherited from Late Latin incincta (“pregnant”). The Late Latin word reshaped the classical Latin inciēns (“big with young”), a word of animal…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin lectiō (“reading; selection”), a noun of action from lēctus, the past participle of legō (“to gather; to read”). In its first centuries the Italian word…

It is inherited from Latin merda (“dung, excrement”). DELI and GDLI call it a learned word, but it is found throughout the Romance languages: French merde, Occitan merda, Catalan merda, Spanish…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin praemium (“booty; profit; reward”). The Latin noun comes from *prai-emion, formed with prae- (“before”) on emō (“to take; to buy”); originally it was the…

It is the past participle of rapire (“to kidnap; to enrapture”), used as an adjective and a noun. The verb continues Latin rapiō (“to seize, carry off”), which moved to the fourth conjugation…

It is borrowed from Latin recuperō (“to regain, to get back”), a learned word taken from Latin in the sense “to come back into possession”. Sabatini–Coletti calls it the learned counterpart of…

It is a noun formed from Italian ricordare + -o, from the verb meaning “to remember”. GDLI rejects an earlier record in the 13th-century poet Pannuccio del Bagno as too early to be credible. Compare…

It is borrowed from Latin revēlāre (“to unveil, to reveal”), a learned word. The Latin verb is formed from vēlō (“to cover, veil”), from vēlum (“veil, curtain”), with the prefix re- of reversed…

It is formed from Italian s- + coprire, with the prefix ⟨s-⟩ in its privative sense: to uncover is to take away what covers. The base verb continues Latin cooperiō (“to cover completely”), made of…

It is a learned borrowing, borrowed from Latin servitium (“slavery; the condition of a slave”), derived from servus (“slave”). Nocentini treats servigio together with this word and sees that variant…