Etymology — The origins of English words

From Latin volvo, "I roll," originally referencing ball bearings, the company's first product.

From Latin virgo, "maiden" or "virgin," the same root as the word virgin.

From Latin victor, "conqueror," from vincere, "to conquer" — also the source of the given name Victor.

A clipped form of Violet or Viola.

From Italian vespa, "wasp" — the scooter's designer thought its body and buzzing engine resembled the insect.

Borrowed from Sanskrit veda, meaning "knowledge."

Borrowed from Spanish Valle.

Anglicized form of Irish Úna. Doublet of Oona.

Clipping of Tyrone, Tyler, Tyson, Tyron, and other male given names beginning with "Ty".

As clothing, a clipped form of "tuxedo". As the Linux mascot, coined from "Torvalds Unix" (after Linux creator Linus Torvalds), with a nod to the tuxedo-like markings of penguins.

From Late Latin Tuscanus, "belonging to the Tusci", the ancient people from whom the Etruscans and the region's name descend.

Borrowed from Chinese. Most likely from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 屠 (Tú) or 涂 (Tú).

From Middle English tresorie, from Old French tresorie, from tresor (“treasure”), from Latin thēsaurus (“treasure”), from Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós, “treasure house”). Displaced native Old English māþmhūs.

From ball plus -er; the "extravagant" sense grew out of the image of wealthy professional basketball players.

Etymology tree Tigre ትግሬ (təgre)bor. English Tigre Borrowed from Tigre ትግሬ (təgre).

Invented in the latter half of the twentieth century. It can be explained as a short form of Letitia or Venetia, or from Estonian Tiia, pet form of Dorothea.

Various places in England, from Old English þorp. See also thorpe.

From Latin taurus ("bull"), going back to Ancient Greek Taûros, ultimately from a much older Sumerian phrase describing the "Bull of Heaven."

From Middle English tau, taue, from Latin tau, from Ancient Greek ταῦ (taû) and Hebrew תָּו (tav). Sense 7 was used by Joseph M. Lindenberg in 1991, and popularized by the American educator and entrepreneur Michael Hartl in a 2010 paper which explains that τ resembles π; and that τ is the Greek equivalent of t, the first letter of turn, and 2π corresponds to one turn of a circle with a radius of one unit. Sense 8.1 (“ellipsis of tau lepton or tau particle”) was coined by the American physicist Martin Lewis Perl (1927–2014) after the first letter of Ancient Greek τρίτον (tríton, “third”), since the tau lepton or tauon was the third charged lepton discovered.

A clipped form of "Natasha."

From Estonian, likely combining an old word for "Denmark" with linn, meaning "town" or originally "castle."

From Hebrew טַל (tal), meaning "dew."

The origin of the state's name is debated, with proposed roots in Nahuatl or Mayan; the hot sauce takes its name from the state and the chili pepper grown there, and was popularized in the United States from the 1870s by the McIlhenny Company.

From Spanish Sy, from Hokkien 施 (Si). Doublet of See, Sze, Siy, and Shi.