Language

Italian

Words with origins in Italian.

Ditto

ditto (variant of detto)

The word "ditto" journeyed from 17th-century Venetian bookkeeping, where ditto (a variant of standard Italian detto) meant "said" or "the …
Colonel

colonello

The word colonel arrived in English from the Italian colonello, meaning "commander of a column of soldiers." Its peculiar pronunciation, …