Words that come from Italian -ire

400 words across 28 languages descend from Italian -ire — including favorite, favourite, granite, brunette, favoritism, granitic, favouritism, granitoid.

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Italian (297)

English (34)

French (14)

German (7)

Hungarian (4)

Portuguese (4)

Esperanto (3)

Polish (3)

Catalan (3)

Norman (3)

Spanish (3)

Finnish (3)

Danish (2)

Ido (2)

Greek (2)

Russian (2)

Latvian (2)

Dutch (2)

Middle French (1)

Georgian (1)

Yiddish (1)

Estonian (1)

Old French (1)

Romanian (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

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Swedish (1)

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