List of English words of Etruscan origin
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This is a list of English words that may be of Etruscan origin, and were borrowed through Latin, often via French. The Etruscan origin of many of these words is disputed, and some may be of Indo-European or other origin.
- antenna
- arena
- from harena, 'sand'
- autumn
- belt
- from balteus, 'sword belt'
- catamite
- from catmite
- ceremony
- defenestration
- element
- from elementum, 'letter'
- fenestra
- histrionic
- from histrionicus, from histrio, "actor"
- ides
- ludicrous
- mantissa
- market
- military
- mundane
- from mundus, 'earth', from munth, 'land'
- palace
- palate
- people
- person
- from phersu, 'mask'
- pontifex
- dubious, likely 'ponti-fex' from Latin pons, 'bridge, path' and fex, 'maker'
- satellite
- from satnal, 'attendant'
- scurrilous
- sentinel
- from satnal, 'attendant'
- Serge (first name)
- serve
- from servus, 'a slave'
- spurious
- style
- from stilus (indirectly)
- stylus
- from stilus
- vernacular
- from vernaculus, 'domestic', from verna, 'a native slave'
- viburnum
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