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If you were interested in Italian verbs, and wanted to know which English verbs were borrowed from Italian, or have an Italian cognate, the part of speech filter on the Advanced Search page allows you to find out.

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Simply enter a search for 'Italian', select 'language names' as the search area, and check the box labelled 'verb' in the part of speech filter. This will ensure that the only entries returned by the search are verbs.