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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Italian in character.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To render Italian or conformable to Italian principles or manners; Italianize.
  • Italianized; having become like an Italian: applied especially to fantastic affectation of fashions borrowed from Italy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb rare To render Italian, or conformable to Italian customs; to Italianize.
  • adjective Italianized; Italianated.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Italian in style or character
  • verb To Italianize

Etymologies

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Italian +‎ -ate

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