ITALIAN LOANWORDS IN THE ENGLISH LEXICON
ITALIAN LOANWORDS IN THE ENGLISH LEXICON
Author(s): Dorin ChiraSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Summary/Abstract: The Italian influence on the English lexicon is, undoubtedly, the greatest after French and Latin. The vocabularies of music, literature, or painting have benefited most from Italian during the last four centuries; the earliest borrowings belonged to commercial or military fields.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai - Philologia
- Issue Year: 50/2005
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 141-145
- Page Count: 5
- Language: English