Category:Italian terms by etymology

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.