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Umbrella is the only word on the list - which includes "breakfast", "papyrus" and "umbrage" - to come into English by way of Italian.

Specifically, the English word breakfast comes from the seventeenth-century notion of "breaking fast, putting an end" to overnight fasting by having a morning meal. The English word papyrus comes from the Greek papyros by way of the Latin papyrus. The noun umbrage comes from Latin umbraticum ("of or pertaining to shade", from umbra ["shade, shadow"] by way of the Middle French ombrage for "shade, shadow". The noun umbrella comes from the Latin umbella for "parasol, sunshade" by way of the Late Latin umbrella and the subsequent Italian ombrello.

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