Italian words from Venetian
6 Italian words with Venetian in their history, whether borrowed directly or passed on through other languages.
ciao
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…
doge
It is borrowed from Venetian doxe (also written doze), which continues Latin dux (“leader, commander”) in its oblique case. DELI holds that Italian took it in writing, as the open ⟨ò⟩ shows, against…
lido
It is borrowed from Venetian lido, from Latin lītus (“shore”): the Venetian popular form, with /t/ voiced to /d/ between vowels as in the northern dialects. Venetian later reduced it to lio. The…
pala
1. The word for the shovel is inherited from Latin pāla (“spade, shovel; winnowing shovel”). It is found in western Romance as French pelle, Occitan pala, Catalan pala, Spanish pala and Portuguese…
razza
1. The breed is probably borrowed from Old French haraz (“horse stud, stud farm”), an Old French word probably of Norse origin, which developed from “stud” to “breed of horses” and then to “kind…
zenzero
It is borrowed from Venetian zenzevro in origin: Nocentini, following Tomasin, holds that the word came from Venice, where it is first recorded in this form in 1299, and that it was later simplified…