Category:Italian terms by etymology
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Italian terms categorized by their etymologies.
- Category:Italian aphetic forms: Italian words that underwent aphesis, meaning their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their beginning.
- Category:Italian apocopic forms: Italian words that underwent apocope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable(s) from their end.
- Category:Italian back-formations: Italian terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
- Category:Italian blends: Italian terms formed by combinations of other words.
- Category:Italian borrowed terms: Italian terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
- Category:Italian calques: Italian calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
- Category:Italian terms by circumfix: Italian terms categorized by their circumfixes.
- Category:Italian compound terms: Italian terms composed of two or more stems.
- Category:Italian coordinated pairs: Terms in Italian consisting of a pair of terms joined by a coordinating conjunction.
- Category:Italian deverbals: Italian terms derived from a verb.
- Category:Italian doublets: Italian terms that trace their etymology from ultimately the same source as other terms in the same language, but by different routes, and often with subtly or substantially different meanings.
- Category:Italian ellipses: Italian terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
- Category:Italian eponyms: Italian terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
- Category:Italian genericized trademarks: Italian terms that originate from trademarks, brands and company names which have become genericized; that is, fallen into common usage in the target market's vernacular, even when referring to other competing brands.
- Category:Italian inherited terms: Italian terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
- Category:Italian terms by interfix: Italian terms categorized by their interfixes.
- Category:Italian internationalisms: Italian loanwords which also exist in many other languages with the same or similar etymology.
- Category:Italian words derived through metathesis: Italian words that were created through metathesis from another word.
- Category:Italian metonyms: Italian terms whose origin involves calling a thing or concept not by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept.
- Category:Italian neologisms: Italian terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
- Category:Italian nonce terms: Italian terms that have been invented for a single occasion.
- Category:Italian onomatopoeias: Italian terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
- Category:Italian partial calques: Italian partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
- Category:Italian piecewise doublets: Italian terms that are piecewise doublets.
- Category:Italian terms by prefix: Italian terms categorized by their prefixes.
- Category:Italian rebracketings: Italian terms that have interacted with another word in such a way that the boundary between the words has been modified.
- Category:Italian rebuses: Italian rebuses – terms that are partially or completely represented by images, symbols or numbers, often as a form of wordplay.
- Category:Italian reduplications: Italian terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
- Category:Italian retronyms: Italian terms that serve as new unique names for older objects or concepts whose previous names became ambiguous.
- Category:Italian semantic loans: Italian semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
- Category:Italian sound-symbolic terms: Italian terms that use sound symbolism to express ideas but which are not necessarily strictly speaking onomatopoeic.
- Category:Italian spelling pronunciations: Italian terms whose pronunciation was historically or presently affected by their spelling.
- Category:Italian terms by suffix: Italian terms categorized by their suffixes.
- Category:Italian syncopic forms: Italian words that underwent syncope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their interior.
- Category:Italian terms attributed to a specific source: Italian terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
- Category:Italian terms derived from other languages: Italian terms that originate from other languages.
- Category:Italian terms derived from toponyms: Italian terms derived from names of real or fictitious places.
- Category:Italian univerbations: Italian terms that result from the agglutination of two or more words.
- Category:Italian terms with unknown etymologies: Italian terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.
Subcategories
This category has the following 44 subcategories, out of 44 total.
A
- Italian aphetic forms (0 c, 9 e)
- Italian apocopic forms (0 c, 546 e)
B
- Italian back-formations (0 c, 52 e)
- Italian blends (0 c, 83 e)
C
D
- Italian doublets (0 c, 1222 e)
E
- Italian ellipses (0 c, 68 e)
- Italian eponyms (0 c, 186 e)
G
- Italian genericized trademarks (0 c, 13 e)
I
- Italian internationalisms (0 c, 15 e)
M
- Italian words derived through metathesis (0 c, 1 e)
- Italian metonyms (0 c, 25 e)
N
- Italian neologisms (0 c, 174 e)
- Italian nonce terms (0 c, 1 e)
O
- Italian onomatopoeias (0 c, 121 e)
P
- Italian piecewise doublets (0 c, 4 e)
R
- Italian rebracketings (0 c, 3 e)
- Italian retronyms (0 c, 3 e)
S
- Italian sound-symbolic terms (0 c, 2 e)
- Italian spelling pronunciations (0 c, 1 e)
- Italian syncopic forms (0 c, 9 e)
T
- Italian terms borrowed back into Italian (0 c, 23 e)
- Italian terms derived from toponyms (0 c, 8 e)
U
- Italian univerbations (0 c, 103 e)
- Italian terms with unknown etymologies (0 c, 345 e)