What foreign words are used in the English language?

Foreign Words And Phrases Now Used In English

ab initio	Latin from the beginning
billet-doux	French a love letter (literally ‘sweet note’)
blitzkrieg	German an intense, violent military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory (literally ‘lightning war’)
bona fide	Latin genuine; real (literally ‘with good faith’)

What language are most English words derived from?

Latin
About 80 percent of the entries in any English dictionary are borrowed, mainly from Latin. Over 60 percent of all English words have Greek or Latin roots.

What are 10 English words that come from Spanish?

Animals

• alligator — el lagarto (“the lizard”)
• armadillo — “little armored one”
• barracuda — possibly from barraco (“snaggletooth”)
• bronco — “rough”
• burro — “donkey”
• cockroach — anglicization of cucaracha.
• mosquito — literally, “little fly”
• mustang — mustango, from mesteño (“untamed”)

Is Burrito a loan word?

Discover some examples of English words borrowed from Spanish….Food and Drink Loanwords.

English Term	Spanish Term	Meaning/Origin of Spanish Term
burrito	burrito	diminutive of burro (donkey)

What are some examples of clipped words?

Clipped Words

ad – advertisement	memo – memorandum
auto – automobile	mike – microphone
bike – bicycle	mum – chrysanthemum
burger – hamburger	pen – penitentiary
bus – omnibus	phone – telephone

What English words came from French?

Some of the French words that made their way into the English language were coined by French speaking inventors, discoverers or pioneers, or scientists: cinema, television, helicopter, parachute, harmonium, bathyscaphe, lactose, lecithin, bacteriophage, chlorophyll, mastodon, pterodactyl, oxide, oxygen, hydrogen.

Does the adoption of French words remain popular in modern times?

The total number of French words adopted during the Middle English period was slightly over 10.000, of these about 75 percent are still in current use.