Italian words first recorded in the 16th century

It is formed from Italian scrivano + -ia. The Medieval Latin form scribania is recorded in 1309. The base scrivano “clerk, scribe” comes from Medieval Latin scrivanes, recorded in the Edict of…

It is borrowed from French appointement, a legal term recorded in French from 1388. In French it meant an interim ruling by which a judge ordered the parties to bring new witnesses or written…

Its origin is uncertain. The usual explanation is a word for “dry”: For Nocentini it is borrowed from Middle French drogue, from Middle Low German drōge (“dry”) in a phrase meaning “dry barrels”, so…

It is formed from Italian indosso + -are, from the adverb indosso (“on, on one's body”). “Indosso” is a compound of in “on” and dosso (“back”), and “dosso” comes from Vulgar Latin *dossum, an…

It is the feminine of signore. Wiktionary takes it from Medieval Latin seniōra, a feminine of the Latin comparative. The same feminine is Spanish señora and Portuguese senhora, while Old Occitan…

It is borrowed from Latin indāgāre (“to track down, trace, investigate”), a learned word. The Latin verb depends on the hunting noun indāgō (“ring of hunters; investigation”), the source of…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Late Latin systēma, from Ancient Greek σύστημα (sústēma, “a gathering, organized whole”). The Greek noun comes from συνίστημι (sunístēmi, “to put together”)…

It is a compound from Italian o (“oh”) + dio (“God”), an exclamation written as one word. Treccani notes that the doubled ⟨dd⟩ reflects the lengthening of the consonant after the interjection in…

It is the past participle of commettere used as a noun: the employee is one to whom a task is entrusted, and the inlay is made of pieces put together. The participle continues Latin commissus, from…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin pēnsiō (“weighing; payment; rent”). The Latin noun is formed from pendō (“to weigh, pay”); the sense “payment” comes from the old weighing out of money, and…

It is borrowed from German Bier. Nocentini names the Middle High German form, bier, and compares French bière and Romanian bere. The double ⟨rr⟩ is Tuscan, as Carlo Salvioni showed in 1916, and…

DELI, GRADIT, Devoto–Oli and Sabatini–Coletti derive the betting verb, though DELI calls the change of meaning unclear, from an older verb of the same form meaning “to take apart, disjoin”, formed…

It is from Italian vacare + -anza, or from vacante (“vacant”), according to DELI, Nocentini, GRADIT and Devoto–Oli. Others give it as Latin vacantia (“being free”), the neuter plural of vacāns, the…

It is formed in Italian, from Italian divertire + -mento. The verb continues Latin dīvertere (“to turn aside, go another way”), from dis- and vertō (“to turn”), with a change of conjugation; “to…

It is a back-formation from the plural of testimonio, which was heard as the plural of a noun in ⟨-e⟩. The older form testimono was made the same way from the plural. The singular in ⟨-io⟩ is a…

It is inherited from Late Latin nonnus (“monk; male nurse, tutor”), the masculine of nonna (“nurse”). It is a word of children's speech. In the language of the Church it became a title of respect…

It is borrowed from French rôle, from Late Latin rotulus (“little wheel; roll”). The Latin word meant a rolled sheet of writing, and so a register or list; French had the sense of a list from the…

It is borrowed from Turkish divan (“council of state”), from Persian دیوان (dīvān, “register; chancery, council chamber”). In the Ottoman Empire the word named the council, then the sofa on which…

It is a compound, from Italian fra (“between”) + tempo (“time”), made from an older phrase with the words written separately. Wiktionary compares French entretemps, also literally “between time”.

1. The noun is formed from the verb incontrare, without a suffix. The verb, recorded as Old Italian emcontrare in the late 12th century, is inherited from Late Latin incontrāre, found in the Itala…

It is the phrase a rivederci, “until we see each other again”, written as one word: from Italian a (“to”) + rivedere (“to see again”) + ci (“us”). Zingarelli reads it as short for “(goodbye) until…

It is a masculine noun made from cosa (“thing”). Meyer-Lübke sets it beside French chose used as a masculine, ⟨le chose⟩, for a name that one has forgotten, and beside the Italian verb cosare, which…

The word is first recorded in Medieval Latin, as from Medieval Latin pizza (“flat cake”) at Gaeta in 997 and at Penne in the Abruzzi in 1195. Further Medieval Latin records come from central and…

It is a noun formed from the verb visitare “to visit”. The verb is a learned word, recorded from the 12th century, borrowed from Latin vīsitō (“to go to see often; to visit”), a frequentative of…

It is a form of groppo (“knot, tangle”), and has the same Germanic origin. According to DELI, both are borrowed from Late Latin cruppa (“thick rope”), a word of the Latin glosses that renders a…

It is a compound of pure in the sense “also, even” and troppo (“too much”).

It is a learned word, borrowed from Late Latin revīsiō (“a seeing again”), first recorded in the 5th century in Claudianus Mamertus. The Latin noun is formed on the past participle of Latin revideō…

It is borrowed from Old Spanish apartamiento (“secluded place”), a noun formed on apartar (“to set apart”) and aparte (“apart”), and was adapted to the Italian verb appartare. GRADIT dates the…

It is formed from Italian interesse + -are, from the noun meaning “interest”. GRADIT compares French intéresser, recorded in 1423, and Panzini in the early 20th century held that the noun, the verb…

It is borrowed from Latin interventus (“a coming between; intervention”), a learned word. The Latin noun is formed from interveniō (“to come between, intervene”), the source of Italian intervenire…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin suggerō (“to supply, to add; to prompt, to suggest”), moved from the Latin third conjugation to the Italian third. The Latin verb is a compound of sub-…

It is a noun formed from tirare, without a suffix. The same kind of noun is French tir, from tirer, which first meant the shot of a bow in the 13th century, and Spanish tiro. The verb comes from a…

It is borrowed from Spanish regalo, the noun of regalar (“to give presents; to entertain”). The Spanish origin is shown by the late appearance of the family, from the 16th century, and by…

It is borrowed from Late Latin tōtālis (“entire, total”), a learned word, formed from tōtus (“whole, all”). DELI thinks it probably came in through French total, recorded as an adjective from 1370…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin Lycēum, from Ancient Greek Λύκειον (Lúkeion), the name of the place near Athens where Aristotle taught. The place was named after the nearby temple of…

It is borrowed from Latin trīstis (“sad, gloomy; harsh”), a learned form beside tristo, which continues the popular Vulgar Latin trīstus. The popular variant was made on the model of laetus (“glad”)…

The adjective is the past participle of isolare “to isolate”, a verb formed on isola “island” and recorded before 1597. The noun meaning “city block” is formed from Italian isola + -ato, with the…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Medieval Latin episodium, from Ancient Greek ἐπεισόδιον (epeisódion, “additional entrance; episode”). The Greek word is the neuter of ἐπεισόδιος (epeisódios…

It is borrowed from French projet, first recorded about 1460 in the form Middle French pourget and in its present spelling in 1549, a noun from the verb projeter (“to plan”), first recorded about…

It is borrowed from Late Latin tentātīvus (“trying, testing”), a learned word: the Latin adjective was used as a noun in Italian. GRADIT calls the source Medieval Latin, Sabatini–Coletti and the…

It is a deverbal noun of concertare (“to arrange together; to harmonize”). That verb is borrowed from Latin concertō (“to contend, dispute”), formed from cum (“with”) and certō (“to contend”), the…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin data, the feminine past participle of Latin dō (“to give”), from the formula “littera data” or “epistola data”, “letter given (on this day)”, with which a letter…

It is borrowed from Latin phrasis (“diction, style”), a learned borrowing, from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “expression, way of speaking”), a noun formed from φράζω (phrázō, “to point out…

DELI, GRADIT, Devoto–Oli and the older dictionaries give it as borrowed from French papa, a nursery word recorded in French from 1256. Nocentini rejects this widespread view: following the arguments…

It is the feminine of seduto, the past participle of sedere (“to sit”), used as a noun. DEI suggests it may have been modelled on French séance, from seoir (“to be seated”), and DELI quotes…

It is borrowed from Spanish este and est, which go back to Old English ēast. DELI, following Migliorini, says that the names of the compass points, though English in origin, reached Italian through…

It is borrowed from French sud, which comes from Old English sūþ. DELI dates the French word to 1529 and GRADIT to about 1170, and DEI and Prati to the 12th century. DEI and Prati also allow a…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Late Latin scŏpus (“target; aim”), recorded in Suetonius. Nocentini instead calls it a modern loan straight from Greek. The Latin word is from Ancient Greek…

It is borrowed from Latin seriēs (“row, chain, succession”), a learned word, from serō (“to join, to link in a row”) with the suffix -iēs. DELI calls the Latin verb of Indo-European origin, and…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Late Latin energīa, a word Jerome uses, from Ancient Greek ἐνέργεια (enérgeia, “activity, force in action”). The Greek noun is formed from ἐνεργής (energḗs…

It is borrowed from French clinique, from Latin clīnicē (“clinical medicine”) and the related clīnicus (“physician who visits the bedridden”). The Latin words come from Ancient Greek κλινική…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Medieval Latin obiectīvus (“relating to the object”), a term of scholastic philosophy probably coined by Duns Scotus. The Medieval Latin adjective is formed from…

It is formed from the verb arrivare, as a noun without a suffix. The verb, recorded about 1300, comes from Vulgar Latin *arripāre (“to reach the shore”), built from Latin rīpa (“bank, shore”) with…

1. The task is from Italian compitare + -o, a noun formed from the verb in its old sense “to reckon, to compute”, according to DELI, GRADIT, DEI and Sabatini–Coletti. “Compitare” is from Latin…

It is borrowed from Latin firmāre (“to make firm; to confirm”), a learned word, from firmus (“firm, steady”). Its popular doublet is fermare “to stop”, inherited from the same Latin verb. The noun…

It is a compound from Italian in + fatti, the preposition with the plural of fatto (“fact”), literally “in facts, in reality”. It is the same phrase as the older spelling written separately, ⟨in…

It is formed from passeggiare (“to walk, stroll”) with the suffix -ata, the feminine past participle used as a noun. The verb comes from passo (“step”). Sicilian passijata has the same formation.

It is from Italian pratico + -mente, formed from the adjective “pratico” “practical” with the adverb suffix. “Pratico” is a learned word from Late Latin practicus, from Ancient Greek πρακτικός…

It is a noun formed in Italian from the verb raccontare (“to tell”), with the ending -o. The verb is recorded from the late 13th century, in the “Novellino”; it is contare in the sense “to tell…

The origin is disputed. Nocentini, Devoto, Devoto–Oli and Sabatini–Coletti take the word from Spanish: it is borrowed from Spanish grandioso, a derivative of grandía (“greatness”). GRADIT and Devoto…