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  2. List of English words of Italian origin - Wikipedia

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    The first to use this Italian word was William Shakespeare in Macbeth. Shakespeare introduced a lot of Italian or Latin words into the English language. Assassin and assassination derive from the word hashshashin (Arabic: حشّاشين, ħashshāshīyīn, also hashishin, hashashiyyin, means Assassins), and shares its etymological roots with ...

  3. Lists of English words by country or language of origin

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    List of English words of Indonesian origin, including from Javanese, Malay (Sumatran) Sundanese, Papuan (West Papua), Balinese, Dayak and other local languages in Indonesia. List of English words of Irish origin. List of Irish words used in the English language. List of English words of Italian origin.

  4. Foreign-language influences in English - Wikipedia

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    [not verified in body] [4] [page range too broad] English borrowed many words from Old Norse, the North Germanic language of the Vikings, [5] and later from Norman French, the Romance language of the Normans, which descends from Latin. Estimates of native words derived from Old English range up to 33%, [6] with the rest made up of outside ...

  5. List of Italian musical terms used in English - Wikipedia

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    Concerto grosso. big concert. A Baroque form of concerto, with a group of solo instruments. Da capo aria. from the head aria. A three-section musical form. Dramma giocoso. jocular drama. A form of opera.

  6. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    350000. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition. In the introduction to the 4th and 5th editions, it is mentioned that more than 10,000 words have been added, thus the total for the 5th edition will be more than 370,000 words. [ 24 ][failed verification] Finnish. 350,000.

  7. Latin influence in English - Wikipedia

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    Latin influence in English. Although English is a Germanic language, it has significant Latin influences. Its grammar and core vocabulary are inherited from Proto-Germanic, but a significant portion of the English vocabulary comes from Romance and Latinate sources. A portion of these borrowings come directly from Latin, or through one of the ...

  8. Ciao - Wikipedia

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    Ciao (/ tʃaʊ / CHOW, Italian: [ˈtʃaːo] ⓘ) is an informal salutation in the Italian language that is used for both "hello" and "goodbye". Originally from the Venetian language, it has entered the vocabulary of English and of many other languages around the world.

  9. Hard and soft C - Wikipedia

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    The Italian soft c pronunciation is /tʃ/ (as in cello and ciao), while the hard c is the same as in English. Italian orthography uses ch to indicate a hard pronunciation before e or i , analogous to English using k (as in kill and keep) and qu (as in mosquito and queue). In addition to hard and soft c , the digraph sc represents /ʃ/ or, if ...

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