WOLD - Word: plastic

Loanword Information
Borrowed status:	1. clearly borrowed
Comments:	In modern sense first used 1909.
Source words:	plastica 'plastic, something which can be moulded', from Italian < plássein 'to mould', from Greek
Effect:	Insertion
Salience:	Present only since contact
Other comments:	Greek to Italian to English.
Contact situation:	Italian contact Italian contact Dutch and Middle Low German influence belongs mostly to the late Middle Ages (1350-1500), as does some of the Italian influence on English and probably also the scanty influence of Welsh and Gaelic on English.

plastic

a word from Vocabulary English