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• Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary (English-Italian)
  ....oxfordreference.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t66a (Italian-English)] ...idiomatic Italian and English, both written and spoken, The Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary covers the vocabulary that all learners need.
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• Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary (Italian-English)
  ...eference.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t66b (English-Italian)] ...omatic Italian and [[English]], both written and spoken, The Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary covers the vocabulary that all learners need.
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• Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary (English-Italian)
  ....oxfordreference.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t66a (Italian-English)] ...idiomatic Italian and English, both written and spoken, The Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary covers the vocabulary that all learners need.
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• Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary (Italian-English)
  ...eference.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t66b (English-Italian)] ...omatic Italian and [[English]], both written and spoken, The Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary covers the vocabulary that all learners need.
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• Dante Alighieri
  ...o Boccaccio], is considered the greatest literary work [[composed]] in the Italian language and a [[masterpiece]] of world [[literature]]. ...fountains" or "the three crowns". Dante is also called the "Father of the Italian language".[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante]
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• Levity
  Old French levité = Italian levità, < [[Latin]] levitātem, levitās, < levis [[light]]
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• Opera
  Italian, [[work]], opera, from [[Latin]], work, pains; akin to Latin ''oper''-, ''o '''Opera''' (English plural: operas; Italian plural: ''opere'') is an art form in which singers and [[music]]ians perfor
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• Studios
  Italian, literally, [[study]], from Latin studium The word studio is derived from the Italian: studio, from Latin: studium, from studere, [[meaning]] to [[study]] or zea
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• Grotesque
  Middle French & Old Italian; Middle French, from Old Italian (pittura) grottesca, [[literally]], cave painting, feminine of grottesco of
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• Solo
  Italian, from ''solo'' [[alone]], from [[Latin]] ''solus'' In [[music]], a '''solo''' (from the Italian: ''solo'', meaning [[alone]], even though ''assolo'' is now used in Italy w
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• Manifesto
  Italian, denunciation, manifest, from manifestare to [[manifest]], [[from]] Latin, Manifestos is derived from the Italian [[word]] manifesto, itself derived from the [[Latin]] manifestum, meaning [
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• Motto
  Italian, from Late Latin muttum grunt, from [[Latin]] muttire to mutter A '''motto''' (Italian for [[pledge]], sentence; plural: motti) is a phrase meant to [[formally]]
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• Zero
  French or Italian; French ''zéro'', from Italian ''zero'', from Medieval Latin ''zephirum'', from Arabic ''ṣifr'' ...French ''zéro'' from Venetian zero, which (together with cypher) came via Italian ''zefiro'' from Arabic صفر, ṣafira = "it was empty", ṣifr = "zero",
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• Disaster
  Middle French & Old Italian; Middle French desastre, from Old Italian disastro, from dis- (from [[Latin]]) + astro [[star]], from Latin astrum -
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• Obstinate
  ...ccepted [[English]] plural forms, the latter [[reflecting]] the [[word]]'s Italian etymology. Strictly speaking, ostinati should have exact [[repetition]], bu
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• Rome
  ...ion of 3.7 million.[3] It is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber river.
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• Segue
  Italian, there follows, from ''seguire'' to follow, from [[Latin]] ''sequi'' ...r. It means continue (the next section) without a pause. It comes from the Italian "it follows". The term ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacca attacca]''
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• Crescendo
  Italian, from ''crescendo'', adjective, increasing, gerund of ''crescere'' to [[gro Two Italian [[words]] are used to show [[gradual]] changes in volume. '''Crescendo''',
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• Terra firma
  New Latin, [[literally]], solid [[land]]. Denoting the territories on the Italian mainland that were subject to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_o
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• Cartoon
  Italian ''cartone'' pasteboard, cartoon, augmentative of ''carta'' leaf of [[paper] A cartoon (from the Italian "cartone" and Dutch word "karton", meaning strong, heavy paper or pasteboar
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• Bankrupted
  ...iddle French & Old Italian; Middle French banqueroute bankruptcy, from Old Italian bancarotta, from banca bank + rotta broken, from [[Latin]] rupta, feminine
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• Ghetto
  Italian, from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice Venetian] [[dialect]] ''ghèto' ...org/wiki/Little_Italy Little Italys] across the country were predominantly Italian ghettos. Many Polish immigrants moved to sections like Pilsen of Chicago an
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• Spiral
  ...i/Albertus_Magnus Albertus Magnus], a1255), whence also French ''spiral'', Italian ''spirale'', Spanish ''espiral''.
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• Caricature
  Italian ''caricatura'', [[literally]], [[act]] of loading, from ''caricare'' to loa The term is derived from the Italian ''caricare''—to charge or load. An early [[definition]] occurs in the Eng
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• Artisans
  Middle French, from northern Italian dial. form of [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuscany Tuscan] artigiano, fr An '''artisan''' (from Italian: artigiano) is a [[skilled]] manual [[worker]] who makes items that may be
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• Facade
  French ''façade'', from Italian ''facciata'', from ''faccia'' [[face]], from Vulgar Latin ''facia''
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• Brigand
  ...LISH_PERIOD Middle English] brigaunt, from Middle French brigand, from Old Italian brigante, from brigare to fight, from briga strife, of [https://en.wikipedi ...to derive his [[name]] from the Old French brigan, which is a form of the Italian brigante, an irregular or partisan [[soldier]]. There can be no [[doubt]] a
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• Grotto
  Italian ''grotta'', ''grotto'', from [[Latin]] ''crypta'' [[cavern]], crypt The word comes from Italian ''grotta'', Vulgar Latin ''grupta'', Latin ''crypta'', (a crypt). It is rel
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• Caravan
  Italian caravana, from Persian kārvān
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• Divan
  ...ther European form, older than divan, and apparently directly < Arabic, is Italian dovana, doana, now dogana, French douane (in 15th cent. douwaine), custom-h
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• Pedestal
  Middle French piedestal, from Old Italian piedestallo, from pie di stallo foot of a stall The architects of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance Italian revival], however, conceived the [[idea]] that no order was complete withou
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• Nepotism
  French ''népotisme'', from Italian ''nepotismo'', from ''nepote'' nephew, from [[Latin]] ''nepot''-, ''nepos'' The term comes from Italian word ''nepotismo'', which is based on Latin root ''nepos'' meaning nephew.
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• Bank
  ...nglish], from Middle French or Old Italian; Middle French banque, from Old Italian banca, [[literally]], bench, of Germanic origin; akin to [https://nordan.da
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• Charlatan
  Italian ''ciarlatano'', alteration of ''cerretano'', [[literally]], inhabitant of [ ..., a chatterbox. Ultimately, etymologists trace "charlatan" from either the Italian ''ciarlare'', to prattle; or from ''Cerretano'', a resident of Cerreto, a v
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• Carousel
  French ''carrousel'', from Italian ''carosello'' A '''carousel''' (from French ''carrousel'', from Italian ''carosello''), or '''merry-go-round''', is an amusement ride consisting of
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• Vacillation
  ...'' to sway, stagger, totter, etc., whence also French ''vaciller'' (1314), Italian ''vacillare'', Portuguese ''vacillar'', Spanish ''vacilar''
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• Sentinel
  Middle French ''sentinelle'', from Old Italian ''sentinella'', from ''sentina'' [[vigilance]], from ''sentire'' to [[perce
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• Confetti
  Italian, plural of ''confetto'' sweetmeat, from Medieval Latin ''confectum'', from ...The origins are from the Latin ''confectum'', with confetti the plural of Italian confetto, small sweet. Modern paper confetti traces back to symbolic [[ritu
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• Titian
  ...ʃən), was the leading painter of the 16th-century Venetian school of the [[Italian Renaissance]]. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno (in Veneto), in ...[[color]], would exercise a profound influence not only on painters of the Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Western art.
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• Gentleness
  ...gh-born, [[noble]] (modern French ''gentil'' elegant. Spanish ''gentil'' , Italian ''gentile'' < Latin ''gentīlis'' belonging to the same ''gens'' or [[race]
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• EFTS (Electronic Full Text Sources)
  ...n Film Scripts Online'', ''Diderot's Encyclopédie'', ''English Poetry'', ''Italian Women Writers'', the ''Patrologia Latina Database'', ''North American Women
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• Scope
  Italian scopo aim, [[purpose]], < [[Greek]] σκοπός mark for shooting at, aim
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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
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• 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
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• Octave
  :b : the first eight lines of an Italian [[sonnet]]
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• Horde
  ...rowd, troop, Polish ''horda'', German, Danish [[horde]], Swedish ''hord'', Italian ''orda'', Spanish, Provençal ''horda'', French ''horde''. The initial h [[
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• Pun
  perhaps from Italian puntiglio fine point, [[quibble]]
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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].
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• 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
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• Cavalier
  Middle French, from Old Italian ''cavaliere'', from Old Occitan ''cavalier'', from Late Latin ''caballarius
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• 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
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• Serenade
  French ''sérénade'', from Italian ''serenata'', from ''sereno'' clear, calm (of weather), from [[Latin]] ''se
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• Attack
  [Middle French attaquer, from Old Italian *estaccare to attach, from stacca stake, of Germanic origin; akin to Old E
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• Bias
  ...biais'' , in 14th cent. ‘oblique, obliquity’. Also Sardinian ''biasciu'' , Italian ''s-biescio'' awry
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• 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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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• Air
  *3 [probably [[translation]] of Italian aria]
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• Polarity
  ...negates the statement. Many other [[language]]s contain similar modifiers: Italian and Interlingua have ''non'', Spanish has ''no'', French has ''ne ... pas''
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• Banquet
  Middle French, from Old Italian banchetto, from diminutive of banca bench, [[bank]]
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• Renaissance
  The '''Renaissance''' (French for "rebirth"; Italian: Rinascimento, from re- "again" and nascere "be born")[1] was a [[culture|c
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• Desert
  [[English]] '''desert''' and its Romance cognates (including Italian and Portuguese deserto, French désert and Spanish desierto) all come from
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• Origin
  ...ual]] or a family’, 1679 in [[mathematics]]) and adjective (1520). Compare Italian origine (1304-8), Spanish origen (a1400).With the trisyllabic French forms
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• Tutor
  In British, Australian, New Zealand, Italian, and some Canadian [[universities]], a '''tutor''' is often but not always
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• Eloquence
  ...racesco Petrarca), in his study program of the [[classics]] and antiquity (Italian [[Renaissance]]) focused attention on language and communication. After mas
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• Cornerstone
  ...also coing, cuigne = Provençal cunh, conh, Spanish cuño, Portuguese cunho, Italian conio < [[Latin]] cuneum (nominative -us) wedge. Godefroy has also Anglo-No
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• Joke
  ...High German ''gehan'' to say, [[Sanskrit]] ''yācati'' he asks. [[Compare]] Italian ''gioco'', [[game]], [[play]], sport, ''jeast''
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• Wand
  ...irce Circe], who used it to [[transform]] Odysseus's men into [[animals]]. Italian [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_tale fairy] tales put them into the ha
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• Improvisation
  French improviser, from Italian improvvisare, from improvviso sudden, from [[Latin]] improvisus, [[literall
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• Bastion
  Middle French, from Old Italian ''bastione'', augmentative of ''bastia'' [[fortress]], derivative from [[di
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• Quarantined
  ...quattuor four) + -ginta (akin to viginti twenty); partly modification of Italian quarantena quarantine of a ship, from quaranta forty, from Latin quadragin
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• Traffic
  Middle French trafique, from Old Italian traffico, from trafficare to trade in coastal waters. Traffic in [[English
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• Latin
  ...Latin, a dialect of Latin, is the ancestor of the [[Romance]] languages ([[Italian]], [[French]], [[Spanish]], [[Portuguese]], [[Romanian]], [[Catalan]], [[Ro
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• Querulous
  ...''’), Portuguese quereloso quarrelsome, given to complaining (13th cent.), Italian quereloso given to complaining
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• Food
  ...s]] of ethnic foods include [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_cuisine Italian], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_cuisine French], [https://en.wikipe
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• Citadel
  Middle French citadelle, from Old Italian cittadella, diminutive of cittade [[city]], from Medieval Latin civitat-, c
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• Promiscuity
  ...Spanish promiscuidad (a1795 or earlier), Portuguese promiscuidade (1813), Italian promiscuità (1611).
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• Sects
  ...ord for both the [[meaning]] sect and the meaning [[cult]], for example in Italian: setta.
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• Caliper
  ...Greek [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giglio_Island Giglio] wreck near the Italian coast. The ship find dates to the 6th century BC. The wooden piece already
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• Momentum
  ...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_New_Sciences Two New Sciences], used the Italian word "impeto." Some languages, such as French and Italian, still lack a single term for momentum, and use a phrase such as the litera
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• Jester
  The term originates from the old Italian "''buffare''", meaning to puff out one's cheeks that also applies to [https
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• Pathology
  ...stern Europe during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Renaissance Italian Renaissance].
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• Vigil
  ...eplessness, an occasion for [[devotional]] watching, or an observance. The Italian word vigilia has become generalized in this sense and means "eve" (as in on
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• Pilot
  Middle French ''pilote'', from Italian ''pilota'', alteration of ''pedota'', from Middle Greek ''pēdōtēs'', fro
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• Spittle
  ...The common [[source]] of these is apparently Italian or Levantine: compare Italian spedale, dialect spitale, modern [[Greek]] σπιτάλι; also medieval La
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• Thomas Aquinas
  ...(/əˈkwaɪnəs/; 1225 – 7 March 1274), also Thomas of Aquin or Aquino, was an Italian [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Order Dominican] friar and [[pries
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• University
  ...ond commencing with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_renaissance Italian Renaissance] of the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The medieval [ ...eventeenth centuries and the transformation of the liberal arts during the Italian Renaissance.
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• Relief
  ...egree of [[projection]] of the sculpted form from the field, for which the Italian appellations are still sometimes used. The full range includes '''high reli
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• Comedy
  ...f this, the word came into modern usage through the Latin ''comoedia'' and Italian ''commedia'' and has, over time, passed through various shades of [[meaning
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• Vault
  A '''Vault''' (French. ''voûte'', from Italian. ''volta'',) is an [[architectural]] term for an [https://en.wikipedia.org/
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• Portfolio
  Italian ''portafoglio'', from ''portare'' to carry (from [[Latin]]) + ''foglio'' le
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• Tarot
  In the Tarot de Marseille, as is standard among Italian suited playing cards, the [[pip card]]s in the [[suit of swords]] are drawn In this abstraction, the Tarot, and the Italian playing card tradition, diverges from that of [[Spanish playing card]]s, in
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• Supposition
  ...[action]] < supposit-, suppōnĕre to suppone v. Compare French supposition, Italian supposizione, Spanish suposicion, Portuguese supposição.
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• Mother Teresa
  ...ada. The foreign language editions include French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Japanese, and Thai. In both Indian and foreign languages, there ha
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