ricerca linguaggio italiano in Inghilterra?

Question

Mia figlia deve fare una ricerca sul linguaggio italiano usato in Inghilterra, dove posso trovare qualcosa su internet?

Answer 1

Many Italian words have entered the English language.
Pizza, spaghetti and ravioli are just some of them.
Many technical words in music are Italian, such as forte and allegro, pianoforte (Piano)
Many musical instrument names are also Italian,such as cello and tuba. (N.B. cello is short for violincello)
From the darker side of Italian life
we get Mafia and vendetta. And Bravo! Via Internet

Italian vocabulary has contributed many words to the English language over the years. Some of these include gondola, regatta, fresco, vendetta, broccoli, volcano, basilica, stucco, terracotta, and inferno. In music, one finds numerous Italian words, such as concerto, sonata, tempo, aria, allegro, staccato, andante, and lento

Americans don’t seem concerned about foreign words entering their language, however. Maybe it’s an extension of our melting-pot theory. As we adopt certain foods into our national cuisine, for example, we adopt the original names along with them. So we call broccoli and zucchini by their Italian names, because that’s where these veggies came from. . We’ve also happily adopted the words pasta, pizza (from the Italian pizze for pie) and spaghetti (from spaghetto for thin string or twine).
The early Christians scribbled messages and slogans on the walls of the catacombs. This writing came to be known as graffito, or little scratch. We still use the term graffiti for modern-day scratchings on subway cars, buildings, etc.

The tragic death of Princess Diana brought the term paparazzi to headlines all over the world. This word is fairly new. It came from the 1960 Fellini film, La Dolce Vita, and the film’s character photographer-companion of Marcello Mastroianni. The character was based on a real-life street photographer named Tazio Secchiaroli who helped Fellini with his research for the movie. The name Paparazzo (which is reputedly a common surname in Calabria) was borrowed from a vintage travel book titled By the Ionian Sea, which Fellini just happened to be reading at the time.

Some mystery surrounds the English word fiasco. In Italian, it simply means flask – especially the straw-covered kind that chianti manufacturers use. I’m sure I once heard that a shipload of bad chianti poisoned foreign buyers, and so the term came to mean a disaster in English. But when I tried to verify the story for this article, I couldn’t locate it. I did find another explanation, which said that the word came from Venetian glassblowers. If there were any flaws in their hand-crafted products, they then turned them into simple utilitarian flasks (fiasco) rather than works of art.

And of course we can thank Starbucks for imprinting the words espresso and cappuccino on our native tongue.
Borrowed words from Italian:
Borrowed words from Italian can be grouped into several types:

Music ("concerto", "opera", "violin"), military ("colonel", "attack"), architecture ("balcony", "corridor"), economic ("bankrupt"), food ("macaroni", "pizza") and politics ("ballot", "fascist").

Also from Italian is a word associated with the USA ("America") and one associated with the UK ("umbrella").



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bravo Cry of approval.
broccoli A vegetable. One of many food terms from Italian.
concerto


crescendo grow Musical term: gradual increase in loudness.

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ghetto From the name of a Jewish area in 15th century Venice.
gondola Originally a cabin on an airship.
graffiti
gusto
incognito
inferno
influenza An illness.
lava
libretto little book Musical term: the text of an opera.
lido A bathing place near Venice now a generic term for swimming pools in the UK.
macaroni A type of pasta.
madrigale Musical term: short song for several voices.
maestro
Mafia
malaria bad air It used to be thought that malaria was caused by stale air.

mandolino A stringed musical instrument.
mezzanino middle level floor in a building.
Morocco from Marrakesh North African country.
motto saying

nepotismo nephew Giving jobs to relatives.
opera works Plural of "opus" (work).

pasta From the dried flour paste used in cooking.
piano from "pianoforte" - soft loud Musical instrument.
pizza

portfolio
prima donna first lady
propaganda Originally a religious term.

semolino little bran Grains left after the milling of flour.
solo Single performer.
sonata Composition for a single instrument.
soprano The highest female voice.
staccato detach Musical term: play in an abrupt manner.
stiletto little dagger Originally a dagger, then the heel of a female's shoe.
stucco
studio
spaghetti little strings A type of pasta.
tarantula Named after area where found in Italy.
tempo Musical term: time.
torso trunk
trio Musical term: for three voices or instruments.
umbrella little shadow
vendetta
vermicelli little worms A type of pasta.
viola Musical term; a stringed instrument.
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