Italian words from Occitan
8 Italian words with Occitan in their history, whether borrowed directly or passed on through other languages.
bugia
1. The lie is borrowed from Old Occitan bauzia (“deceit, treachery”), from Frankish *bausī (“wickedness”). The Germanic word is the source of Old High German bōsi (“bad”) and German böse (“evil”)…
carriera
It is borrowed from Old Occitan carreira, from Late Latin carrāria, short for a phrase meaning “road for carts”, from Latin carrus (“wagon”). Devoto–Oli and Gabrielli simply derive it from carro…
coraggio
It is borrowed from Old Occitan coratge, properly “heart”, from a Vulgar Latin *corāticum, derived from Latin cor (“heart”). Wiktionary also names Old French corage, and Prati derives the word from…
guidare
It is a Germanic word, but the route by which it came into Italian is disputed. Most dictionaries say that it is borrowed from Old Occitan guidar; Sabatini–Coletti, Treccani, DEI, Devoto and…
pensiero
It is borrowed from Old Occitan pensier (“thought”), a noun formed on pensar (“to think”), which continues Latin pēnsāre (“to weigh carefully; to consider”). It came into Old Italian as ⟨pensiere⟩…
sembrare
It is borrowed from Old Occitan semblar, from Late Latin similāre (“to resemble”), a verb formed on Latin similis (“like, similar”). The Occitan verb has kin in French sembler, Catalan semblar and…
stanco
The origin is disputed. Nocentini and Devoto–Oli see it as borrowed from Old Occitan estanc (“exhausted”), the short past participle of estancar (“to exhaust, to dry up”), from estanc (“pool”), from…
viaggio
It is borrowed from Old Occitan viatge, with Old French veiage (about 1080) beside it, from Latin viāticum (“provisions for a journey”). The Latin noun is the neuter of the adjective viāticus (“of…