Word origins

• capuletA member or citizen of the family, party, or country of the wife in a Romeo and Juliet couple and/or one of a pair of feuding groups, the other identified as Montague.
• PuglieseOf or relating to Puglia (“Apulia”) in Italy.
• MontelloA suburb of the city of Burnie, Tasmania, Australia.
• podestaA chief magistrate of various Italian republics and city-states in the Middle Ages.
• RizziA surname from Italian.
• CatanzaroProvince of Calabria, Italy.
• PetrarchFrancesco Petrarca (1304–1374), Italian scholar and poet.
• spallA splinter, fragment or chip, especially of stone.
• PozziA surname from Italian
• mannerismA noticeable personal habit, a verbal or other (often, but not necessarily unconscious) habitual behavior peculiar to an individual.
• LepantoMedieval Italian name of Naupactus.
• palladianOf or relating to Pallas, an epithet of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, and potentially to other female Greek figures such as Pallas the daughter of Triton and granddaughter of Poseidon.
• MacerataA province of Marche, Italy.
• rivuletA small stream; a streamlet; a gill.
• StregaAn Italian herbal liqueur coloured with saffron.
• AnacapriA comune of Capri, Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy
• CampobassoProvince of Molise, Italy.
• cappellettiA circular form of ravioli.
• MastrangeloA surname from Italian.
• SalentoA small peninsula at the south-eastern tip of Italy, sometimes described as the "heel"; principal cities are Lecce and Otranto.
• gliadinA minor protein (along with gluten and glutelin) in wheat; it may cause a toxic reaction in some people.
• nonetA composition for nine instruments or nine voices.
• EnzaA river in Emilia-Romagna.
• pizerA (front) porch (on a house).
• cozenTo become cozy; (by extension) to become acquainted, comfortable, or familiar with.
• gondolierA boatperson who propels a gondola, especially in Venice.
• TobleroneA Swiss chocolate bar with honey, nougat and almonds, shaped like a triangular prism with triangular wedge-shaped pieces.
• ServiteA member of the Servite Order, one of the five original Catholic mendicant orders.
• musketryThe technique of using small arms such as muskets.
• IserniaA province of Molise, Italy.
• capreseCharacteristic of Capri.
• myristicPertaining to nutmeg.
• armonicaA musical instrument made of blown-glass bowls mounted on a spindle turned originally by a foot pedal, and played with wetted fingers, producing an ethereal sound. Technically, it is a crystallophone.
• savoyardA native or inhabitant of Savoy, a cultural region, largely part of the modern administrative region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
• cavatinaAn operatic song in slow tempo, either complete in itself or (e.g., in Bellini and Verdi) followed by a faster, more resolute section: hence
• polaccapolonaise (dance or music)
• neurastheniaAn ill-defined medical condition characterized by lassitude, fatigue, headache, and irritability, associated chiefly with emotional disturbance.
• DibenedettoA surname.
• sopraninoa musical instrument, especially a saxophone or recorder, that is a pitch higher than the soprano instrument of its class
• moratAn ancient drink resembling mead, made with mulberries.
• secundoThe secondary part of a duet.
• entablatureAll of that part of a classical temple above the capitals of the columns; includes the architrave, frieze, and cornice but not the roof.
• mankTo mutilate.
• PiccioneA surname from Italian.
• BoyardeeA surname from Italian.
• TorinesePertaining to the city of Turin, in northwest Italy.
• MigliaccioA surname.
• SantoreA surname from Italian.
• skutchA pest; an annoying person or thing; a bother.
• obbligatoAn obbligato section; a prominent countermelody, often written to be played or sung above the principal theme (in a higher pitch range).
• PendolinoAny of a class of tilting trains based on the Italian ETR 401.
• abandon hope, all ye who enter hereSupposed inscription at the gate of hell.
• a battutaWith the beat. A direction to resume strict time after the free declamation of a singer; chiefly used in recitatives. It is equivalent to a tempo.
• abbandonatamenteWith abandonment; so as to make the time subordinate to the expression.
• Acqui TermeA comune in Alessandria province, Piedmont, Italy.
• affrapTo strike; to strike down.
• affretAn attack.
• aggrateTo gratify, cause pleasure to.
• all'anticaIn a classical style; based on classical models.
• alla primaWithout any preparatory layer of colour; with no underpainting.
• allodgementA place where a soldier is assigned to lodge; billet.
• altaltissimoThe highest point of something; the pinnacle or apex.
• andante moderatoA little faster than andante.
• anelloniA type of pasta similar to rigatoni but with ridges on the inside.
• annessiectomyThe removal of the ovaries and Fallopian tubes.
• anti-Against, opposed to.
• arioseMelodic and song-like.
• avellaneIn the form of four unhusked filberts.
• AylardA surname.
• ballabileA dance performed by the corps de ballet, or by the chorus in an opera.
• bambocciadeA bambocciante painting, depicting a scene from lower-class or rustic life.
• BergamaskOf or characteristic of Bergamo, Italy.
• bergamiaA species of the citrus fruit bergamot, probably a natural hybrid between a lemon and an orange.
• bezonianA beggar, pauper, or rascal.
• BoccaccianOf or pertaining to Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), Italian author and poet, or to his works.
• bolineA white handled knife used in Wicca, for physical cutting, in contrast to the athame.
• bozzettoA small scale model used to make a larger sculpture.
• broccoli rabeRapini, a leafy-green vegetable.
• BrusatteA surname from Italian.
• caffè mochaSynonym of mocha (“type of coffee”).
• CammorataA surname from Italian.
• candytuftAny member of the genus Iberis of flowering plants.
• canzonetA short song, now especially one which is light and breezy.
• capicolaA traditional Neapolitan-Italian cold cut made from pork shoulder or neck and dry-cured whole.
• caprese saladAn Italian salad of sliced fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, and basil, seasoned with salt and olive oil.
• CarcoforoA village in Vercelli, Piedmont, Italy.
• CarielloA surname.
• caroonA crown (coin); its value, 5 shillings.
• cascatelliA type of pasta consisting of one flat piece joined at right angles to two ruffle-shaped pieces.
• casoneA type of peasant's house in the Veneto.
• CatanzariteA surname from Italian.
• cfr.Compare.
• charperTo seek; to search.
• chequeenA gold coin formerly used in Italy and Turkey; a sequin.
• cicisbeaThe female companion or lover of a (chiefly married) man, especially in eighteenth-century Italy.
• cimbalA kind of confectionery or cake.
• cinquecentistOf or pertaining to the art of Italy in the sixteenth century.
• cipolline onionA relatively flat, oval onion, originally from northern Italy.
• cirl buntingA small Old World passerine bird, Emberiza cirlus, of the bunting family (Emberizidae), very similar to the yellowhammer.
• codillaThe tow obtained from flax or hemp.