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This is an initial list of false cognates and false friends between English and Italian. They therefore look similar but respectively either they do not actually come from the same root or they have different meanings, despite their similarities.
| Italian word
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English translation of Italian word
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English word
|
Italian translation of English word
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| abitare
|
to reside
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habit
|
abituarsi/abituare sé (stesso)
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| abusivo
|
illegal
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abusive
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violento, che maltratta maltrattamenti
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| accomodare
|
to repair
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accommodate
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ospitare
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| accomodarsi
|
to sit down, to take a seat
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| far accomodare (qualcuno)
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to make (someone) sit down, to make (someone) take a seat
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| addetto
|
assigned, in charge (adjective); worker, employee (noun)
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addicted
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dipendente
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| addizione
|
addition
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addiction
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dipendenza
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| adepto/adetto
|
initiate
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adept
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abile
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| affluenza
|
turnout
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affluence
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ricchezza
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| affrontare
|
to confront
|
affront
|
insultare
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| agonizzante
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moribund
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agonizing
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angoscioso
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| allegato
|
attached, enclosed
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allegation
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accusa
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| annoiare
|
to cause to get bored
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annoy
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infastidire/dar fastidio
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| annoiarsi
|
to get bored
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| apprendere
|
to learn
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apprehend
|
arrestare
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| appuntare
|
to sharpen
|
appoint
|
nominare
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| appuntarsi
|
to note/write down, to annotate, to write an annotation/a memo(randum)
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| arguire
|
to deduce
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argue
|
discutere
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| assetto
|
arrangement, set-up
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asset
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risorsa
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| attendere
|
to wait (for)
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attend
|
assistere
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| attitudine
|
aptitude
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attitude
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atteggiamento
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| attualmente
|
recently
|
actually
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in realtà
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| baldo
|
self-confident
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bald
|
calvo
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| bigotteria
|
ostentatious piety
|
bigotry
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bigottismo
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| calamita
|
magnet
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calamity
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calamità
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| caldo
|
hot
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cold
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freddo
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| camera
|
room, chamber
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camera
|
macchina fotografica/fotocamera
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| casualità
|
fortuitousness
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casualty
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ferito
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| cognato (“brother-in-law”)/cognata
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sister-in-law; a cognate word
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cognate word
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parola cognata
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| cognate (kindred by birth, akin, same-blooded)
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congiunto, parente
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| cognate (other senses)
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analogo, affine
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| collera
|
wrath
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cholera
|
colera
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| comodità
|
comfort
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commodity
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bene
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| complessato
|
neurotic, troubled
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…complexioned
|
di carnagione…
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| complessione
|
constitution, build
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complexion
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carnagione
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| concussione
|
extortion, graft
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concussion
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commozione
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| condiscendente
|
obliging, compliant
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condescending
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altezzoso, paternalistico
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| confetto
|
comfit
|
confetti
|
coriandolo
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| confrontare
|
to compare
|
confront
|
affrontare
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| congiurare
|
to conspire
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conjure
|
evocare
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| considerato
|
thought (of)
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considerate/consider
|
considerare, pensare; osservare; prestare attenzione
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| considerate
|
amichevole, cordiale; premuroso
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| contabile
|
bookkeeper; accountant; book-keeping (attributive); countable (math)
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countable (math)
|
numerabile, contabile, enumerabile
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| countable (grammar)
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numerabile
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| contesto
|
context
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contest
|
controversia, dibattito; gara, concorso
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| conveniente
|
suitable
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convenient
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comodo
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| corto
|
short
|
curt
|
breve, conciso
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| decoro
|
dignity; (especially for Christmas) decoration
|
decor
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arredo
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| decoration
|
decoro (especially for Christmas), addobbo, abbellimento
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| deficiente
|
deficient (medicine); moron (slang)
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deficient
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carente; (medicine) deficiente
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| deludere
|
to disappoint; to disillusion
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delude
|
ingannare
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| educato
|
well-mannered
|
educated
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colto
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| fattoria
|
farm
|
factory
|
fabbrica
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| molestare
|
to annoy
|
molest
|
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| pretendere
|
to demand
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pretend
|
fingere/fare finta/far finta; far credere
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| parente
|
relative
|
parent
|
genitore
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| simpatico
|
nice (person)
|
sympathetic
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comprensivo
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| stringente
|
cogent
|
stringent
|
severo
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| terrificante
|
terrifying
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terrific
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eccezzionale, formidabile
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