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1600s

Latin words first recorded in the 17th century

2 Latin words whose earliest known written record dates from the 17th century, earliest first. Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.

  1. telescopium

    1613

    It is a New Latin coinage from Ancient Greek τηλεσκόπος (tēleskópos, “far-seeing”), a compound of τῆλε (têle, “far”) and a word for “watcher”. Wiktionary takes it as a Latinisation of Italian…

  2. diplomaticus

    1680–1689

    It is a New Latin word, formed from Latin diplōma (“state letter, official document”) + -icus on the stem ⟨diplōmat-⟩. Wiktionary treats it as an internationalism taken from French diplomatique…

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