English words from Medieval Latin
- trapeA messy or untidy woman.
- treagueA truce.
- tremulationA trembling, quivering.
- tricenaryOf or related to the number thirty.
- tricennalSynonym of trental, set of 30 requiem masses, the payment for such services.
- triforiumThe gallery of arches above the side-aisle vaulting in the nave of a church.
- trisagionA liturgical prayer that runs “Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us” in English, typically sung before certain scriptural readings at Eucharistic liturgies in Eastern Christianity, and during the Good Friday service in the Roman Rite.
- troperythe usage of tropes (in a creative work, genre, style, etc.)
- TurcomanA member of a mainly nomadic Turkic people inhabiting a region east of the Caspian Sea; a Turkmen.
- turpethOperculina turpethum (obs. syn. Convolvulus turpethum, Ipomea turpethum, Merremia turpethum), a plant in the morning glory family.
- vadiumA pledge or security; bail.
- vadium vivumA living pledge, which exists where an estate is granted until a debt is paid out of its proceeds.
- velleityThe lowest degree of desire or volition; a total lack of effort to act.
- VenedotiaThe Kingdom of Gwynedd, a Roman Empire successor state that emerged in sub-Roman Britain in the 5th century during the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain.
- vestiariumvestry
- vestitureThe hairs of plants, invertebrates and other non-mammalian organisms, taken as a whole.
- vimpaA veil or shawl worn over the shoulders of servers who carry the mitre and crosier during liturgical functions when they are not being used by the bishop, in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and some other western churches.
- vindicableable to be vindicated; justifiable
- viz.Videlicet: namely, to wit, that is to say, specifically, as an illustration.
- volitationFlight; flying.
- WaldenseA member of a sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont.
- water of lifeSynonym of aqua vitae, a distilled spirit.
- when in Rome, do as the Romans doWhen situated in a foreign place, it is wise to follow the local customs.
- WilamowiceA city in Poland.
- YarovitPolabian god of war worshipped in Wolgast and Havelberg.
- zedoaryCurcuma zedoaria, a perennial herb native to India and Indonesia.
- zerumbetZingiber zerumbet, a Javanese plant resembling ginger.