Italian words first recorded in the 19th century

It is a learned borrowing, borrowed from Latin vīrus (“plant juice; slime; venom, poison”). In the 16th century the French surgeon Ambroise Paré used the Latin word for the contagious, corrosive pus…

It is the present participle of divertire “to amuse”, used as an adjective. The verb is a learned word, borrowed from Latin dīvertō (“to turn aside, go different ways”), made from vertō (“to turn”)…

It is the univerbation of a phrase formed from per and fino (“as far as, until”). The first element gives the phrase an emphatic force.

It is borrowed from French ambulance, recorded in French from 1752 and in its military sense from 1792. The French noun is formed on ambulant (“itinerant, moving”), from Latin ambulō (“to walk, go…

It is from Italian comportare + -mento. The verb is from Latin comportō (“to carry together”), from portō (“to carry”) with con-; its reflexive comportarsi (“to behave”) is recorded before 1446…

It is a masculine form of tavola (“table; board”), which continues Latin tabula (“board, plank”). DELI and the GDLI think the masculine was probably modelled on the northern dialects, on Lombard…

It is borrowed from French hôtel, from Old French ostel (“lodging, house”), recorded about 1050. The Old French word continues Late Latin hospitale (“lodging for guests”), the neuter of Latin…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Late Latin sexuālis (“relating to sex”), used by Caelius Aurelianus and formed on sexus (“sex”) with the suffix -ālis. DEI suggests that it came in through French…

It is borrowed from English romantic, probably through French romantique. The English adjective is first recorded around 1650–1659 in the sense “improbable, like a story”, then “moving…

It is the phrase “yes, sir” written as one word: from Italian sì (“yes”) + signore (“sir, lord”). The spelling reflects the doubling of the second word's initial /s/ in pronunciation. Because the…

It is a compound from Italian tecno- + -logia, on the model of Ancient Greek τεχνολογία (tekhnología, “systematic treatment of an art”). Several dictionaries treat it simply as a learned borrowing…

It is borrowed from New Latin therapīa, a learned word of medicine, from Ancient Greek θεραπεία (therapeía, “service; care, medical treatment”). The Greek noun belongs to θεραπεύω (therapeúō, “to…

It is formed from Italian polizia + -otto,. Polizia is a learned word from Latin polītīa (“political organization, government”), from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía, “government of the city”), and…

It is the short past participle of svegliare (“to wake”), formed without the participle ending, beside the regular participle svegliato. Devoto described it as extracted from the full participle…

It is a diminutive from Italian pane (“bread”) + -ino. The English word panini is borrowed from its plural.

It is the past participle of sbagliare (“to make a mistake”), used as an adjective. That verb is probably abbagliare (“to dazzle”) with the prefix changed, and Nocentini notes that it was first used…

It is from Italian professione (“profession”) + -ista. Treccani and the GDLI derive it from professionismo instead. The noun professione is from Latin professiō (“public declaration”), from…

It is the feminine of scomparso, the past participle of scomparire (“to disappear”), used as a noun. Nocentini derives it from the verb directly. The verb is formed from comparire (“to appear”) with…

It is a diminutive, from Italian sigaro (“cigar”) + -etta, formed on the model of French cigarette, recorded in 1831. Devoto calls it a calque of the French word. DEI derives it from French…

It is from Italian pomeridiano (“of the afternoon”) + meriggio (“midday”): the noun was drawn from the adjective under the influence of the old word for midday. The adjective (1598) is a learned…

It is borrowed from Old French jaque (1364), which had the diminutive jaquette (1375). The French word is usually derived from the name French Jacques (“James”), which also meant “peasant”, because…

It is borrowed from English partner, recorded in Italian from 1862. The English word is an altered form of Middle English parcener (“joint heir, sharer”), reshaped after part, which goes back to Old…

It is from Italian osso (“bone”) + buco (“hole”), adapted from Lombard òs büs (“bored bone”) of Milan. The name refers to the round slice of shank bone with its hollow full of marrow at the centre…

It is borrowed from French camion, kept in its French spelling. The French word is recorded from 1352 in the form chamion (“small cart”); the form with initial /k/ is Norman and Picard. The further…

It is borrowed from French jury, adapted with the Italian noun ending ⟨-ia⟩; the same French word had already been taken over as giurì. French had the word from English jury in the 18th century, and…

It is borrowed from English ion, a word coined in 1834 by the English physicist Michael Faraday, who took it from Ancient Greek ἰόν (ión, “going”), the neuter present participle of εἶμι (eîmi, “to…

It is borrowed from English baby, a diminutive of babe, a word of the language of small children. Nocentini describes it as an infant word of imitative origin. The LEI places it among the elementary…

In the sense “to manage” it is a back-formation from gestione (“management”), modelled on pairs such as passione and patire. Devoto–Oli and Sabatini–Coletti derive it from gestore (“manager”)…

It is from Italian sotto- + titolo (“title”). DELI takes it as modelled on English subtitle, used of books from 1825 and of films from 1909.

It is borrowed from French téléphone, a learned compound of Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “far off”) and φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”), which spread through the English word telephone after Alexander…

It is from Italian per + cento, the phrase per cento “in a hundred” written as one word, on the model of French pour cent, recorded in French from 1538. The GDLI also compares English per cent…

It is borrowed from Venetian s-ciao (“slave”), the Venetian form of schiavo, in the greeting ⟨s-ciao vostro⟩ “(I am) your slave”, which corresponds to the Italian formula ⟨servo suo⟩. Boerio's…

It is borrowed from English film (“membrane; thin coating”), a word of Germanic origin recorded in English from about the year 1000 in the sense “membrane”. English used it for photographic film…

It is borrowed from English detective, recorded in English in 1856 and shortened from the phrase “detective policeman”, a policeman who finds things out. The English adjective is from detect (“to…

1. The café is borrowed from English bar, literally “barrier, rail”, from the rail that separated customers from the counter, then the counter itself, and finally the whole establishment. GRADIT…

It is borrowed from English college, which DELI dates to about 1380, from Old French college, from Latin collegium (“body of colleagues, guild”). The Latin word is formed from collega (“colleague”)…

It is borrowed from French auto, a clipping of automobile of a kind typical of spoken French from the 19th century onwards. DEI compares other familiar French clippings such as métro and stylo…