Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·italian ·1640s
Incognito
from incognito
- Meaning
- Unknown — concealed identity.
- Source word
- incognito
- Route into English
- Italian aristocratic correspondence → English court vocabulary in the 17th c.
- Arrived
- 1640s
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