| jeansThe trousers point to Genoa, not to the American West. | Genoa | From its product | Well attested |
| parmesanThe grater cheese is an English take on Parma. | Parma | From its product | Well attested |
| sybariteThe pleasure-seeker is named for a vanished Greek city in Italy. | Sybaris | From its people | Well attested |
| magentaThe color is named for a battle in Lombardy. | Magenta | Historical name | Well attested |
| cantaloupeThe melon is named for a papal estate in the Sabine hills. | Cantalupo in Sabina | From its product | Probable |
| tarantulaThe spider is named for Taranto. | Taranto | From the place | Well attested |
| italicSlanted type is named for Italy, and more tightly for Venice. | Venice | From its people | Well attested |
| sardineThe fish may be named for Sardinia. It also may not. | Sardinia | Disputed | Disputed |
| gorgonzolaThe blue cheese is a town on the edge of Milan. | Gorgonzola | From its product | Well attested |
| asiagoThe cheese is named for a plateau town in the Veneto. | Asiago | From its product | Well attested |
| bistouryThe surgical blade may be named for a Tuscan city, like the pistol. | Pistoia | From its product | Disputed |
| bolognaThe lunch meat is named for an Italian city. | Bologna | From its product | Well attested |
| charlatanThe fraud may be named for an Umbrian village of licence-sellers. | Cerreto di Spoleto | Disputed | Disputed |
| ChiantiThe wine names the hills it grows on. | Chianti | From its product | Well attested |
| faienceThe glazed ware is named for an Italian town, by way of French. | Faenza | From its product | Well attested |
| génoiseThe sponge is the French feminine for Genoese. | Genoa | From its people | Well attested |
| leghornThe chicken carries the English name for Livorno. | Livorno | Historical name | Well attested |
| millinerThe hatmaker is a Milanese, spelling aside. | Milan | From its people | Well attested |
| pistolThe handgun's name may come from Pistoia, or from a Czech word for a pipe. | Pistoia | Disputed | Disputed |
| proseccoThe sparkling wine is named for a village near Trieste. | Prosecco | From its product | Well attested |
| romaineThe other name for cos lettuce is simply Roman. | Rome | From its people | Well attested |
| siennaThe pigment is named for a Tuscan city. | Siena | From its product | Well attested |
| stromboliThe stuffed bread is named for an Italian volcano. | Stromboli | From the place | Well attested |
| tarantellaThe dance and the spider share a city. | Taranto | From the place | Well attested |
| bergamotThe tea's perfume is usually traced to a Lombard city. | Bergamo | From its product | Probable |
| capriThe trousers are named for an Italian island. | Capri | From the place | Well attested |
| cretonneThe furnishing cotton is usually traced to a Norman village. | Creton | From its product | Probable |
| FrascatiThe Roman table wine is named for a hill town. | Frascati | From its product | Well attested |
| lidoBritish swimming pools are named for a Venetian sandbar. | Lido di Venezia | From the place | Well attested |
| palaceEvery palace in English is one hill in Rome. | Palatine Hill | From the place | Well attested |
| pavaneThe stately dance is usually traced to Padua. | Padua | Historical name | Probable |
| pozzolanaRoman concrete is named for a town near Naples. | Pozzuoli | From its product | Well attested |
| veronalThe first barbiturate sleeping drug was named for Verona. | Verona | From the place | Probable |
| avellaneA heraldic cross is named for an Italian hazelnut town. | Avella | From the place | Well attested |
| bologneseThe meat sauce is the adjective for Bolognese. | Bologna | From its people | Well attested |
| etnaThe spirit burner is named for a Sicilian volcano. | Mount Etna | From the place | Well attested |
| milanesaThe South American cutlet is Milanese. | Milan | From its people | Well attested |
| millineryThe trade name, like the milliner, is Milanese. | Milan | From its people | Well attested |
| neroliThe perfume oil is named for an Italian town, through a princess. | Nerola | Indirect | Well attested |
| orvietanA famous fake cure-all is named for the same Umbrian town. | Orvieto | From its product | Well attested |
| OrvietoThe wine is named for a town on a tufa outcrop. | Orvieto | From its product | Well attested |
| sybariticThe adjective for luxury is a Greek colony in Italy. | Sybaris | From its people | Well attested |
| Roman noseA facial profile is named for a city's portrait busts. | Rome | From its people | Well attested |
| all roads lead to RomeThe Roman road network really did radiate from one gilded marker in the Forum. | Rome | From the place | Well attested |
| Bolognese sauceBologna serves its ragu with flat egg pasta; the spaghetti version is a foreign habit. | Bologna | From the place | Well attested |
| Caprese saladCaprese simply means from Capri; the island named a dish the mainland now owns. | Capri | From its people | Well attested |
| capri pantsNamed for an Italian holiday island by a designer who was not Italian. | Capri | From the place | Probable |
| Carrara marbleMichelangelo climbed the mountain to pick his own blocks from the quarry. | Carrara | From its product | Well attested |
| chicken MarengoNapoleon's cook almost certainly did not improvise it on the battlefield. | Spinetta Marengo | From the place | Probable |
| fiddle while Rome burnsThe fiddle would not be invented for another fourteen centuries. | Rome | From the place | Well attested |
| go to CanossaA castle in Emilia where an emperor waited in the snow for three days. | Canossa | From the place | Well attested |
| Italian sandwichIn Maine, ordering "an Italian" gets you a sandwich, not a person. | Italy | From its people | Probable |
| Lombardy poplarEvery Lombardy poplar is a male clone of a single mutant tree. | Lombardy | From the place | Well attested |
| Orvieto wareCollectors named a whole medieval pottery style after one Umbrian hill town. | Orvieto | From its product | Probable |
| Rome wasn't built in a dayThe proverb about Rome reached English through medieval France. | Rome | From the place | Well attested |
| swim the TiberConverts swim one river toward Rome and another toward Constantinople. | Tiber | From the place | Probable |
| when in Rome, do as the Romans doThe advice started as a bishop's ruling on which day to fast. | Rome | From the place | Well attested |
| Abruzzi wareThe pottery is named for a mountain region that most tourists skip. | Abruzzo | From the place | Probable |
| caprisThe trousers are named for the island where their designer's family took holidays. | Capri | Indirect | Well attested |
| grenacheThe grape and its name may come from opposite ends of the Mediterranean. | Vernazza | Indirect | Disputed |
| Leaning Tower of PisaThe tower began to lean before the third story was finished, and the masons tried to correct it as they built. | Pisa | From the place | Well attested |
| orvietiteOne of a set of obsolete rock names coined for the potassium rich volcanoes north of Rome, each named after its own town. | Orvieto | From the place | Probable |
| tonaliteAn Alpine pass gave its name to one of the commonest rock types in the continental crust. | Tonale Pass | From the place | Well attested |