Word origins

• imbroccataA hit or thrust.
• ImbrognoA surname from Italian.
• ImburgiaA surname from Italian.
• impassionateFilled with passion; impassioned
• ImpastatoA surname from Italian [in turn from Sicilian].
• improvisatoreAn individual who recites impromptu verse, as from a song or poem.
• improvisatriceA female improvisatore.
• -inaUsed to form feminine nouns.
• in altissimoOne octave higher.
• inamorataA female lover or woman with whom one is in love; a mistress.
• inamoratoA lover; a gallant.
• incalmoThe glasswork technique of joining together two separately blown glass bubbles while they are still hot.
• incavoThe incised part in an intaglio.
• incoronateCrowned.
• IncorvaiaA surname from Italian.
• IndelicatoA surname from Italian.
• infamitaA most heinous act against one's own family, or against family life in general.
• inficiateTo render or demonstrate to be invalid; to invalidate or disprove.
• ingannationCheating; deception.
• IngenitoA surname from Italian.
• IngogliaA surname from Italian.
• IngraoA surname from Italian.
• in pettoSecret, private.
• in rilievoThe musical notation that indicates that a particular instrument to play slightly louder than the others so as to stand out over the ensemble; in relief.
• InsalacoA surname from Italian.
• InserraA surname from Italian.
• InterranteA surname from Italian.
• intonacoThe final, very thin layer of plaster on which a fresco is painted.
• intonarumoriA group of experimental musical instruments invented by the Italian futurist Luigi Russolo in the early 20th century.
• intricoan intricacy; a web of intrigue
• involtinoA thin slice of meat rolled around a stuffing and cooked; a roulade.
• InzirilloA surname from Italian.
• IodiceA surname from Italian.
• irredentistSomeone who calls for the seizure or recovery of territories or states currently subject to other countries; an adherent of irredentism.
• ItaleseA mixture of English and Italian used among Italian immigrants in Canada.
• jadroolA loser; a bum.
• jettaturaThe evil eye.
• JorizzoA surname from Italian.
• JudeccaA zone in Dante's Inferno reserved to the traitors to masters and benefactors, named after Judas Iscariot
• karezzaNon-religious spiritual sexual practices that draw upon tantric techniques of body control but do not involve any of tantra's cultural or iconographic symbolism; intended to promote birth control, equality for women, and marital pleasure and fidelity.
• LaCivitaA surname from Italian.
• LaducaA surname from Italian.
• LafataA surname from Italian.
• LagrangiaA surname from Italian
• LagrecaA surname from Italian.
• LainoA surname from Italian.
• LambiaseA surname from Italian.
• LambogliaA surname from Italian.
• lamentosoIn a mournful, grieving manner.
• lamettaThin wire or foil made of brass, gold or silver; now especially thin strips of metallic foil used as Christmas decoration.
• LamorteA surname from Italian.
• LampanelliA surname from Italian.
• lampanteExtracted by mechanical methods; suitable for lighting, but not suitable for human consumption without further refining
• LamparielloA surname from Italian.
• lampredottoA beef tripe dish from Florence, usually served with a green parsley sauce, pepper, and olive oil, and eaten with a bread roll.
• LanasaA surname from Italian.
• LandolfiA surname from Italian.
• LandriscinaA surname from Italian.
• LaneseA surname from Italian.
• languenteIn a languishing manner; pathetically.
• LanzillottaA surname from Italian.
• LanziseraA surname from Italian.
• LapadulaA surname from Italian
• LapennaA surname from Italian.
• lapilloSynonym of lapillus (“lava fragment”).
• LapollaA surname from Italian.
• L'AquilaA province of Abruzzo, Italy.
• larghissimoAs slowly as possible.
• LaSorsaA surname from Italian.
• La SpeziaA province of Liguria, Italy.
• LaspinaA surname from Italian.
• LatellaA surname from Italian.
• latifondoA latifundium in Italy.
• LattanzioA surname from Italian.
• latte macchiatoA coffee-based beverage, prepared by "staining" the steamed "pure" white milk by the addition of espresso, using half or less of the espresso shot of caffè macchiato.
• latticinioA variety of white glass threads or canes, used to make decorative articles.
• launcesand eel, sand lance, fish of the family Ammodytidae
• launeddasA traditional Sardinian polyphonic woodwind instrument made of three pipes, each of which has an idioglot single reed.
• LauricellaA surname from Italian.
• LaurinoA surname from Italian.
• LavaroneA town in Trentino, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy.
• LavecchiaA surname from Italian.
• lazarettoA place reserved for people with infectious diseases (especially leprosy or plague) to live on a long-term basis.
• lazzaroneOne of the poorer classes of Neapolitans; a chance-worker or beggar.
• lazzoA stock comedic routine or physical action, traditionally associated with commedia dell'arte.
• leggeroLightly, delicately, or gently.
• LeggioA surname from Italian.
• LemmoA surname from Italian.
• LeonardeschiA group of artists who worked in the studio of, or under the influence of, Leonardo da Vinci.
• LeperaA surname from Italian.
• LepreA surname from Italian.
• LerroA surname from Italian.
• LevatinoA surname from Italian.
• libbraA traditional Italian unit of mass now equated to the pound.
• libeccioA southwest wind.
• LibrizziA surname from Italian.
• LicciardiA surname from Italian.
• LiistroA surname from Sicilian.
• lingua francaA common language used by people of diverse backgrounds to communicate with one another, often a basic form of speech with simplified grammar, particularly, one that is not the first language of any of its speakers.
• LiquoriA surname from Italian.