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• Trampoline
  Italian ''trampolino'' springboard, from ''trampoli'' stilts, of Germanic origin; a
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• Art Index Retrospective
  ...esearch leading English-language sources, plus others published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. Besides periodicals, users have access to data
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• Fatalism
  Fatal. Compare French fatalisme and Italian fatalismo.
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• Blame
  ...ch ''blâme'', ''blasmer'' (= Provençal ''blasme'', Old Spanish ''blasmo'', Italian ''biasimo''), on Romanic type ''blasimo'', < ''blasimare'' < [[Latin]] ''bl
  2 KB (218 words) - 23:47, 12 December 2020
• Forest
  ...anian silvă; Old French selve); and cognates in Romance languages, such as Italian foresta, Spanish and Portuguese floresta, etc. are all ultimately borrowing
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• Catacombs
  ...ddle English] ''catacumb'', Middle French ''catacombe'', probably from Old Italian ''catacomba'', from Late Latin ''catacumbae'', plural
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• Confidant
  French ''confident'', from Italian ''confidente'', from ''confidente'' [[confident]], trustworthy, from [[Lati
  2 KB (303 words) - 23:40, 12 December 2020
• Octave
  :b : the first eight lines of an Italian [[sonnet]]
  2 KB (325 words) - 01:21, 13 December 2020
• Horde
  ...rowd, troop, Polish ''horda'', German, Danish [[horde]], Swedish ''hord'', Italian ''orda'', Spanish, Provençal ''horda'', French ''horde''. The initial h [[
  2 KB (288 words) - 00:16, 13 December 2020
• Pun
  perhaps from Italian puntiglio fine point, [[quibble]]
  2 KB (317 words) - 02:35, 13 December 2020
• Illuminati
  Plural of [[Latin]] ''illūminātus'' , Italian -ato ‘[[enlightened]]’
  2 KB (336 words) - 01:17, 13 December 2020
• Miniature
  from Italian ''miniatura'', via medieval Latin from [[Latin]] ''miniare'' ''rubricate'',
  2 KB (321 words) - 01:27, 13 December 2020
• Humanism
  ...ted especially with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Renaissance Italian Renaissance].
  2 KB (312 words) - 23:56, 12 December 2020
• Rubble
  ...pedia.org/wiki/Mortar_(masonry) mortar] almost like concrete, is called in Italian "muraglia di getto" and in French "bocage". In Pakistan, walls made of rubb
  2 KB (319 words) - 02:37, 13 December 2020
• Cavalier
  Middle French, from Old Italian ''cavaliere'', from Old Occitan ''cavalier'', from Late Latin ''caballarius
  2 KB (291 words) - 23:45, 12 December 2020
• Niche
  ...erives from the [[Latin]] ''nidus'' or nest, via the French ''niche''. The Italian ''nicchio'' for a sea-shell may also be involved, as the [[traditional]] de
  2 KB (301 words) - 01:27, 13 December 2020
• Serenade
  French ''sérénade'', from Italian ''serenata'', from ''sereno'' clear, calm (of weather), from [[Latin]] ''se
  2 KB (348 words) - 01:49, 13 December 2020
• Attack
  [Middle French attaquer, from Old Italian *estaccare to attach, from stacca stake, of Germanic origin; akin to Old E
  2 KB (342 words) - 23:40, 12 December 2020
• Bias
  ...biais'' , in 14th cent. ‘oblique, obliquity’. Also Sardinian ''biasciu'' , Italian ''s-biescio'' awry
  2 KB (320 words) - 23:41, 12 December 2020
• Feud
  ...[[word]] ''vendetta'' has been used to mean a blood feud. The [[word]] is Italian, and [[originates]] from the Latin vindicta (vengeance). In modern times, t
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