Italian words first recorded in the 20th century

It is borrowed from French truc (“knack, trick”), from Occitan truc (“blow”) with the slang sense “cunning, find”, from trucar (“to strike”), from Vulgar Latin *trūdicāre (“to strike, press, push”)…

It is borrowed from English weekend, a compound of week and end. DELI dates the English phrase to 1638, while GRADIT and the GDLI date it to 1878. The Italian fine settimana is a calque of it.

It is formed from telefonare (“to telephone”) with the suffix -ata, the feminine of the past participle used as a noun. The verb (1886) is from telefono, which came from French téléphone, made of…

It is borrowed from English team, first “a team of draught animals harnessed together” and then “a sports team”. DELI describes the English word as Germanic, of Indo-European origin, with the…

It is borrowed from French autobus, recorded in Italian in 1913. The French word joins auto- of automobile with -bus, the end of omnibus. Nocentini calls it a Greek and Latin neologism: the ending…

It is borrowed from French taxi, recorded in French in 1906, a shortening of taximètre (“taximeter”). The meter's name came to stand for the car fitted with it. The French compound was proposed in…

It is a clipping of cinematografo, and is borrowed from French cinéma (1900), the clipped form of cinématographe. The variant cinemà, stressed in the French way, was also used. The French word was…

It is a compound from Italian aero- + porto (“port”), modelled on the harbour for ships. The first element is aero- in its sense “aircraft”, which the GDLI explains as short for aeroplano. Most…

It is a clipping of fotografia (“photograph; photography”), first recorded in 1931 with the stress on the final syllable. GRADIT compares the French clipping photo (1878), and the GDLI compares the…

It is borrowed from English OK, the American English word, recorded in Italian from 1931. Nocentini gives the usual account of the English word: it began as a jocular abbreviation of “all correct”…

It is borrowed from English fan, recorded in English from 1879 as a clipping of fanatic. Nocentini takes the English word from French fanatique, which, like Italian fanatico, goes back to Latin…

It is borrowed from English killer (“one who kills”), from the verb kill (“to kill”). DELI and Zingarelli note that the English verb stands alone among the Germanic languages. The word soon became…

It is formed from Italian parco + -eggio on the model of campo and campeggio, according to DELI, and the verb parcheggiare was made from the noun. Nocentini, GRADIT and Devoto–Oli call the noun a…

It is a compound from Italian tele- + camera, with ⟨tele-⟩ standing for televisione and ⟨camera⟩ in the English sense of a photographic camera. Sabatini–Coletti and Wiktionary see an English model…

It is borrowed from English sexy, an adjective recorded in English from 1928 and formed from sex. The English noun comes from Old French sexe (“sex”), the source also of Italian sesso.

It is a contraction of the phrase va’ a fa’ ’n culo, “go and do it in the arse”, made up of the imperative va’, a, the shortened infinitive fa’, ’n and culo (“arse”). The fuller phrase is va’ a fare…

It is borrowed from English video, which is the Latin verb form videō (“I see”) made into a noun. Bruno Migliorini explained it as a substantivized first person singular of “vidēre”, chosen on the…

It is borrowed from English drink (“a drink, a beverage”), the noun formed from the verb to drink. The English verb is of Germanic origin.

It is borrowed from English show, a noun recorded in English from 1561 in the sense “display, exhibition”, from the verb show (“to show”), of Germanic origin. Italian took it with the sense…

It is the prefix super- used as an independent word, “of the highest quality”. The prefix is from Latin super (“over, above”), and Devoto–Oli, Treccani and Wiktionary derive the word directly from…

It is formed from Italian contatto + -are, on the model of English to contact, an English verb recorded from 1834. DELI treats it simply as the English verb taken over, and Sabatini–Coletti call it…

It is borrowed from English gay, in the sense “homosexual” that American English developed by 1935 out of the older meanings “merry” and “licentious”. The English adjective is Old French gai…

It is from Italian stronzo + -ata, from the noun in its insulting sense, a stupid or despicable person. The noun first meant a piece of solid excrement and is borrowed from Lombardic *strunz…

It is from Italian cazzo + -ata. The origin of cazzo is disputed: Prati, Nocentini and the LEI derive it from Old Italian cazza (“ladle”), with a change of gender, while Crevatin proposed a form…

It is borrowed from English computer, from compute (“to calculate”), which came from French computer (“to compute, to count”). The English noun has this sense from 1897. Devoto–Oli traces the verb…

It is borrowed from English file, recorded in Italian from 1969 (Zingarelli) or 1972 (GRADIT, Devoto–Oli). The English word first meant a filza, the wire or string on which papers were threaded to…

It is borrowed from English internet, an unadapted loan. The sources explain the English word differently: Nocentini and Devoto–Oli as a shortening of “International Network”, Sabatini–Coletti of…