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• Illuminati
  Plural of [[Latin]] ''illūminātus'' , Italian -ato ‘[[enlightened]]’
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• Miniature
  from Italian ''miniatura'', via medieval Latin from [[Latin]] ''miniare'' ''rubricate'',
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• 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
  2 KB (341 words) - 23:56, 12 December 2020
• Arsenal
  ...ck for the construction and repair of ships: from French, or from obsolete Italian ''arzanale'', based on Arabic ''dār-aṣ-ṣinā῾a'', from dār ‘house
  2 KB (313 words) - 23:45, 12 December 2020
• Facet
  ...t would become the modern Brilliant Cut is said to have been devised by an Italian named Peruzzi, sometime in the late 17th century. Later on, the first angl
  3 KB (511 words) - 20:51, 3 February 2009
• Resistance
  ...sh Home Army, the Soviet partisans, the French Forces of the Interior, the Italian CLN, the Norwegian Resistance, the Greek Resistance and the Dutch Resistanc ...ts fighting against the Allied invaders. In Italian East Africa, after the Italian forces were defeated during the East African Campaign, some Italians partic
  7 KB (1,041 words) - 02:32, 13 December 2020
• Air
  *3 [probably [[translation]] of Italian aria]
  3 KB (382 words) - 23:47, 12 December 2020
• Polarity
  ...negates the statement. Many other [[language]]s contain similar modifiers: Italian and Interlingua have ''non'', Spanish has ''no'', French has ''ne ... pas''
  2 KB (373 words) - 02:37, 13 December 2020
• Banquet
  Middle French, from Old Italian banchetto, from diminutive of banca bench, [[bank]]
  3 KB (386 words) - 23:43, 12 December 2020
• Renaissance
  The '''Renaissance''' (French for "rebirth"; Italian: Rinascimento, from re- "again" and nascere "be born")[1] was a [[culture|c
  3 KB (512 words) - 02:35, 13 December 2020
• Desert
  [[English]] '''desert''' and its Romance cognates (including Italian and Portuguese deserto, French désert and Spanish desierto) all come from
  3 KB (391 words) - 23:45, 12 December 2020
• Origin
  ...ual]] or a family’, 1679 in [[mathematics]]) and adjective (1520). Compare Italian origine (1304-8), Spanish origen (a1400).With the trisyllabic French forms
  2 KB (373 words) - 22:27, 12 December 2020
• Tutor
  In British, Australian, New Zealand, Italian, and some Canadian [[universities]], a '''tutor''' is often but not always
  3 KB (442 words) - 02:42, 13 December 2020

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