Honest, worthy, proper and useful are the terms associated with “frugi” the Latin word that became frugal, which was used in a passage in Much Ado About Nothing. Critical was first used in Othello. In the 1570s, the phrase “to court” means to woo. From this word Shakespeare created the word courtship which he used in The Merchant of Venice. In Love’s Labour’s Lost, he introduced the word zany, derived from the Latin term “zani” that came for “Zanni,” a derivative of the Italian name, Giovanni. It means idiosyncratic and amusingly unconventional.
