Italian words first recorded in the 18th century

DELI, Nocentini and Sabatini–Coletti take it as borrowed from French éliminer, recorded in French in 1495, a learned word that goes back to Latin ēlīmināre (“to turn out of doors”). DEI and GRADIT…

Most of the modern dictionaries say it is borrowed from French disponible, which itself comes from Medieval Latin disponibilis, a derivative of Latin dispōnō (“to arrange, dispose”). GRADIT…

It is the present participle of affascinare “to charm, enchant”, used as an adjective: from Italian affascinare + -ante. The verb, recorded from Tasso in 1573, is formed from fascino with the prefix…

It is the present participle of imbarazzare (“to hamper; to embarrass”), used as an adjective: from Italian imbarazzare + -ante. The verb is from Spanish embarazar (1460), which comes from…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin versiō, a noun of action from versus, the past participle of vertō (“to turn; to translate”). In Medieval Latin it meant the spoiling of wine poured off and an…

It is from Italian cellula + -are, the adjective of the word for a cell. Zingarelli derives it instead from French cellulaire, which DEI dates to 1751. Italian “cellula” is a learned word from Late…

It is borrowed from Latin īnspector (“examiner, observer”), recorded in Seneca, the agent noun of īnspiciō (“to look into, to examine”), from in- (“in, into”) and speciō (“to look”). DEI calls it a…

It is borrowed from Ancient Greek φάσις (phásis, “appearance of a star”), from φαίνομαι (phaínomai, “to appear”); it was first a term of astronomy for the changing appearance of the Moon, from which…

It is formed from Italian ovvio + -mente, from the adjective “obvious” with the adverb suffix. Ovvio is a learned word of the 17th century, first recorded in Paolo Segneri in 1672, from Latin obvius…

It is a derivation of agente (“agent”), on the model of mercanzia from mercante. Wiktionary takes it from Medieval Latin agentia. The base noun goes back to Latin agēns (“acting, doing”), the…

It is a compound from Italian sta (“this”) + volta (“time”): the phrase meaning “this time” written as one word, with the demonstrative shortened. Battaglia's dictionary (GDLI) explains the first…

GRADIT, Nocentini, Devoto–Oli and Sabatini–Coletti derive it from Italian proietto + -ile, and DEI and GDLI take the adjective as a learned borrowing of New Latin prōiectilis, from which the noun…

It is borrowed from French vampire, recorded in French from 1746. French took it from German Vampir, and German from Serbo-Croatian vampir, which Treccani and GRADIT gloss “one who rises from the…

It is formed from Italian America + -ano. The same derivative is French américain and Spanish americano. The continent is named after the navigator Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512). The name was coined…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin technicus (“master of an art”), from Ancient Greek τεχνικός (tekhnikós, “skilled, of an art”), derived from τέχνη (tékhnē, “art, craft”). Nocentini traces…

It is from Italian interessare + -ante, the present participle used as an adjective. DELI and Treccani note the influence of French intéressant (1718), which is why the purist Antonio Cesari opposed…

It is a learned borrowed from Latin explōdere (“to drive off by clapping, to hiss off the stage”), a compound of ex- (“out”) and plōdō, an old variant of plaudō (“to clap”). The sense “to burst” was…

It is from Italian responsabile + -ità, formed on the model of French responsabilité. DELI, following Ferdinand Brunot, explains that France took the word from English responsibility and spread it…

It is borrowed from English club, a word that properly means “cudgel” and is of Germanic origin. DEI compares Old Norse klubba (“club, cudgel”) and dates the English word for an association to the…

It is borrowed from English miss (“young lady”), short for mistress (“lady”), from Old French maistresse (“mistress; teacher”). The Old French word comes from Latin magistra (“female teacher”), with…

It is borrowed from Late Latin reagō (“to drive back”), a Late Latin verb first used by Avienus in the 4th century, with its conjugation and stress remade on agire. The Late Latin verb lived on in…

It is borrowed from English test, an unadapted loan. The English word comes from Old French test (“pot”), from Latin testum (“earthenware pot, lid”), the same word as Italian testo in the sense of…

It is borrowed from Latin Titius, the name of a Roman gens, formed from the first name Titus. The Italian jurist Irnerius used the name in made-up legal examples, together with Caius and Sempronius…

It is the past participle of impiegare (“to employ”), used as a noun. DEI, Sabatini–Coletti and the 19th-century purist Ugolini see the noun as modelled on French employé. The verb is the popular…

It is formed in from Italian sistema + -are. The noun is from Late Latin systēma, from Ancient Greek σύστημα (sýstēma, “a whole made of parts; gathering”), from συνίστημι (synístēmi, “to put…

It is borrowed from French contrôler, a verb formed from contrôle (“check, verification”). GRADIT also analyses it as an Italian derivative of controllo, formed on the French model. The French noun…

1. The noun meaning “note” is formed from the verb appuntare “to note down”. That verb is made from punto “point, dot” with the prefix a-, and was originally “to mark with a dot”. The sense…

It is borrowed from English dollar, first recorded in Italian in 1783. The English word, recorded from 1560, is an adaptation of Low German daler, the same coin name as German Taler. The German name…

It is the phrase ⟨in vece⟩ “in the place”, written as one word: from Italian in + vece. DELI points out that the oldest texts often write it separately, and that the phrase has an exact model in the…

It is from Italian sorvegliare + -anza, on the model of French surveillance. The verb was itself borrowed in 1812 from surveiller (1586), a compound of sur- (“over”) and veiller (“to keep watch”)…

It is borrowed from French fédéral, which DELI dates to 1783 (DEI has 1739, Devoto–Oli 1789), formed from the stem foeder- of Latin foedus (“treaty, alliance”). Latin had foederātus (“allied”) and…

It is borrowed from French fonctionner, a verb formed in French from fonction (“function”). The French verb is recorded from 1637. In Italian the borrowing was matched to the native noun funzione…

It is from Italian deciso + -mente. The adjective deciso continues Latin dēcīsus, the past participle of dēcīdō (“to cut off; to settle”), from caedō (“to cut”).

It is borrowed from French restaurant, the present participle of restaurer (“to restore”) used as a noun, given the form of the Italian participle of ristorare. Zingarelli, Gabrielli, the GDLI and…

It is borrowed from French fourgon, recorded in French from the early 17th century (1640 in GRADIT); DELI thinks the word came into Italian first as a military term, in the Napoleonic period, and…

It is borrowed from French pantalon, which DELI dates to 1650 and DEI to 1625 in the plural. The French word comes from the name of a mask of the commedia dell'arte who wore long trousers, Venetian…