Latin words first recorded in the 16th century

It is the feminine of Americus, the Latinized first name of the Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512), from Italian Amerigo. Wiktionary adds that the Italian name goes back to a Germanic…

It is from Latin vocābulum (“word, name”) + -ārium (“place for”). Etymonline traces vocābulum to vocō (“to call, name”), which is related to vōx (“voice”) and comes from Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-…

It is a learned borrowed from Byzantine Greek λεξικόν (lexikón, “lexicon”), short for Ancient Greek λεξικὸν βιβλίον (lexikòn biblíon, “a book of words”), from λεξικός (lexikós, “of words”), from…

It is a New Latin coinage of Thomas More, formed from Ancient Greek οὐ (ou, “not”) + τόπος (tópos, “place”) with the Latin suffix -ia, so literally “nowhere”. Etymonline notes that it is commonly…

It is from Latin prae- (“before”) + līmināris (“of the threshold”), that is, “before the threshold”, from līmen (“threshold”). Conte and Etymonline call it a Medieval Latin word, Wiktionary a New…

It is a New Latin coinage of the physician Girolamo Fracastoro, from the name of the shepherd Syphilus, the supposed first sufferer from the disease in his poem of 1530, “Syphilis, or the French…

As the name of a medicine it was coined by Paracelsus, who gave a pretended recipe for it with leaf gold and unpierced pearls among the ingredients. The OED considers it doubtful whether he applied…

It is a coinage of the Flemish chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont (1577–1644), probably from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “empty space”). The Dutch sound of ⟨g⟩ is roughly that of Greek ⟨χ⟩, and van…

It is a New Latin coinage, from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “breath, spirit, soul”) + -λογία (-logía, “study of”). Etymonline thinks it was probably coined in Germany in the mid-16th century, by…