Editing Venetian language (section)

==Venetian lexical exports to English==
Many words were exported to English, either directly or via Italian or French.{{sfn|Ferguson|2007|p=284-286}} The list below shows some examples of imported words, with the date of first appearance in English according to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

{| class="wikitable"
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! Venetian (DECA)
! English
! Year
! Origin, notes
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| {{lang|vec|arsenal}} || [[arsenal]] || 1506 || Arabic {{lang|ar|دار الصناعة|rtl=yes}} {{transliteration|ar|ALA|dār al-ṣināʻah}} "house of manufacture, factory"
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| {{lang|vec|articioco}}|| [[artichoke]] || 1531 || Arabic {{lang|ar|الخرشوف|rtl=yes}} {{transliteration|ar|ALA|al-kharshūf}}; previously entered Castillian as {{lang|es|alcachofa}} and then French as {{lang|fr|artichaut}}
|-
| {{lang|vec|bałota}} || [[ballot]] || 1549 || ball used in Venetian elections; cf. English to "black-ball"
|-
| {{lang|vec|cazin}}|| [[casino]] || 1789 || "little house"; adopted in Italianized form
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| {{lang|vec|contrabando}} || [[contraband]] || 1529 || illegal traffic of goods
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| {{lang|vec|gazeta}}|| [[gazette]] || 1605 || a small Venetian coin; from the price of early newssheets {{lang|vec|gazeta de la novità}} "a penny worth of news"
|-
| {{lang|vec|gheto}} || [[ghetto]] || 1611 || from Gheto, the area of Cannaregio in Venice that became the first district confined to Jews; named after the foundry or {{lang|vec|gheto}} once sited there
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| {{lang|vec|njòchi}}|| [[gnocchi]] || 1891 || lumps, bumps, gnocchi; from Germanic ''knokk''- 'knuckle, joint'
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| {{lang|vec|góndola}} || [[gondola]] || 1549 || from Medieval Greek {{wikt-lang|el|κονδοῦρα}}
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| {{lang|vec|łaguna}} || [[lagoon]] || 1612 || Latin {{lang|la|lacunam}} "lake"
|-
| {{lang|vec|łazareto}}|| [[lazaret]] || 1611 || through French; a quarantine station for maritime travellers, ultimately from the Biblical [[Lazarus of Bethany]], who was raised from the dead; the first one was on the island of Lazareto Vechio in Venice{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}
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| {{lang|vec|łido}} || [[Lido (swimming pool)|lido]] || 1930 || Latin {{lang|la|litus}} "shore"; the name of one of the three islands enclosing the Venetian lagoon, now a beach resort
|-
| {{lang|vec|łoto}} || [[lottery|lotto]] || 1778 || Germanic ''lot''- "destiny, fate"
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| {{lang|vec|malvazìa}}|| [[malmsey]] || 1475 || ultimately from the name {{lang|el|μονοβασία}} [[Monemvasia]], a small Greek island off the Peloponnese once owned by the Venetian Republic and a source of strong, sweet white wine from Greece and the eastern Mediterranean
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| {{lang|vec|marzapan}} || [[marzipan]] || 1891 || from the name for the porcelain container in which marzipan was transported, from Arabic {{lang|ar|مَرْطَبَان|rtl=yes}} {{transliteration|ar|ALA|marṭabān}}, or from [[Mottama|Mataban]] in the [[Bay of Bengal]] where these were made (these are some of several proposed etymologies for the English word)
|-
| {{lang|vec|Montenegro}} || [[Montenegro]] || || "black mountain"; country on the Eastern side of the [[Adriatic Sea]]
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| {{lang|vec|Negroponte}} || [[Euboea|Negroponte]] || || "black bridge"; Greek island called Euboea or Evvia in the [[Aegean Sea]]
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| {{lang|vec|Pantałon}} || [[Harlequinade#Pantaloon|pantaloon]] || 1590 || a character in the [[Commedia dell'arte]]
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| {{lang|vec|pistacio}}|| [[pistachio]] || 1533 || ultimately from [[Middle Persian]] {{lang|pal|pistak}}
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| {{lang|vec|cuarantena}}|| [[quarantine]] || 1609 || forty day isolation period for a ship with infectious diseases like plague
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| {{lang|vec|regata}} || [[regatta]] || 1652 || originally "fight, contest"
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| {{lang|vec|scanpi}}|| [[scampi]] || 1930 || Greek {{wikt-lang|el|κάμπη}} "caterpillar", lit. "curved (animal)"
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| {{lang|vec|sciao}}|| [[ciao]] || 1929 || cognate with Italian {{lang|it|schiavo}} "slave"; used originally in Venetian to mean "your servant", "at your service"; original word pronounced "s-ciao"
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| {{lang|vec|Zani}}|| zany || 1588 || "Johnny"; a character in the [[Commedia dell'arte]]
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| {{lang|vec|zechin}}|| [[sequin]] || 1671 || Venetian gold ducat; from Arabic {{lang|ar|سكّة|rtl=yes}} {{transliteration|ar|ALA|sikkah}} "coin, minting die"
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| {{lang|vec|ziro}} || [[Giro (banking)|giro]] || 1896 || "circle, turn, spin"; adopted in Italianized form; from the name of the bank {{lang|vec|Banco del Ziro}} or {{lang|vec|Bancoziro}} at Rialto
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