B8 ON ERRATA RECEPTA. 



Latin is harcaniare, to trafiic in or from a harca or large, the boat 

 ** quae cuncta navia commercia ad litus portat." To change, ex 

 change, is camliare, cangiare, from a Latin verb camhire to barter. 

 Sent is from rendere, in Latin reddere. Pittance is pietanza, a monk's 

 daily allowance. JPurse is iorsa, i.e. bgrsa, leather. Budget has the 

 same signification, being holgea Latine bulga, a word introduced from 

 Gaul. " Bulgas Galli sacculas scorteas appellant." Festus. — Se- 

 quin, generally attributed to Cyzicus, may be from the Italian zeeca 

 a mint, which is the Arabic sikkah, a stamp or die. Piastre is pias- 

 tra, a thin plate of metal, but derived from emplastrum a surgical 

 plaster. Medal is the Italian medaglia, from the Latin adj. metallea, 

 Bc. pecunia, whence the late Latin medalia, half a denarius. Booth 

 is said to be hottega, one of the odd shapes that opof^ec^ has assumed. 



Most technical terms in Music introduced into English from the 

 Italian remain unchanged. Madrigal is madriga-le, from the root 

 mandra, a herd of cattle. Spinet is spinetta, an instrument struck 

 with a spina, a plectrum or quill. Banjo is pandora, Spanish haU' 

 durria, Latin pandura, "a musical instrument of three strings, in- 

 vented by Pan." 



In xlrchitecture, dome is the Italian duomo, properly speaking the 

 Domus, the common Home oT the Christian people of a city. The 

 great cathedrals of Italy are generally, in imitation of St. Peter' s, 

 surmounted by a cupola. This, seen at a distance, is pointed out as 

 the duomo. The whole building is intended ; but strangers have 

 chosen to conceive that the reference has been to the cupola only. 

 Gallery is galeria, an apartment for gala days and festivities. Ja- 

 lousie, for Venetian blind, behind which one may see and not be 

 Been, is gelosia for zelosia. Vault is volta, i.e., camera valuta, from 

 the arched roof. Cliimney is caminata ; "pro^^etlj camera caminata, 

 a room provided with a caminus or fireplace. Gaol or jail is a soft- 

 ened form of gahhiuola a diminutive of gahbia or gaggia, i.e. the 

 Latin cavea ; whence also cage. 



" Velut ursu3 

 Objectos caveae valuit si frangere clathros, 

 Indoctum doctumque fugat recitator acerbus." 

 Hor., A. P., 472-4. 



Cajole is cognate. Grotesque is grottesco, ornamentation after the 

 style of thit to be seen in the catacombs or grottcs. 



A variety of miscellaneous instances of disguised Italian in English 



