Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·italian ·1640s
Opera
from opera
- Meaning
- A work — applied to staged sung drama from the 17th c.
- Source word
- opera
- Route into English
- Italian musical innovation (Monteverdi, 1607) → European stage culture → English by 1660s.
- Arrived
- 1640s
English borrows.
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