Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to ancient Italy or its peoples or cultures.
- adjective Of or relating to the branch of the Indo-European language family that includes Latin, Faliscan, Oscan, Umbrian, and the Romance languages.
- adjective Of or being a style of printing type patterned on a Renaissance script with the letters slanting to the right.
- noun The Italic branch of Indo-European.
- noun Italic print or typeface.
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- adjective Of or relating to the
Italian peninsula. - adjective linguistics Pertaining to a subfamily of the Centum branch of the
Indo-European language family, that includesLatin and other languages (asOscan ,Umbrian ) spoken by the peoples of ancient Italy and also theRomance languages (Italian, French, Spanish, etc.); the group of ancient languages of this branch as contrasted with the modern Romance languages; Osco-Umbrian - adjective ancient history Pertaining to various peoples that lived in
Italy before the establishment of theRoman Empire , or to any of severalalphabet systems used by those peoples for writing their languages. - proper noun An Italic language.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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This is the first book printed in Italic type, an adaptation of the best humanist script of the time.
The Flow of Information, or: Culture, Shmulture Heather McDougal 2007
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Aldus Manutius of Venice issues an edition of Virgil in Italic type designed by Francesco Griffo.
The Flow of Information, or: Culture, Shmulture Heather McDougal 2007
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This is the first book printed in Italic type, an adaptation of the best humanist script of the time.
Archive 2007-10-01 Heather McDougal 2007
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Aldus Manutius of Venice issues an edition of Virgil in Italic type designed by Francesco Griffo.
Archive 2007-10-01 Heather McDougal 2007
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[Italic is added for emphasis; capital letters are in the original.] 105
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005
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Italics are more than just the slanty-script you see in print to denote ship names and book titles, but it's the hand developed by Italian scribes during the Renaissance - hence the name Italic (which I 'italicize' here in the name of irony as much as description).
The ZehnKatzen Times 2009
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Indeed, so successful was Latin that it supplanted all its ancient linguistic cousins—other Italic languages once spoken on the so-called Italic Peninsula: Faliscan, Oscan, Umbrian, and South Picene.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Indeed, so successful was Latin that it supplanted all its ancient linguistic cousins—other Italic languages once spoken on the so-called Italic Peninsula: Faliscan, Oscan, Umbrian, and South Picene.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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This sect of philosophers is called the Italic, by reason
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Syria, as Dr. Bormann has observed, about AD. 40, when Cornelius is mentioned as “a centurion of the Cohort called Italic,” resident in Caesarea
Was Christ Born in Bethlehem? 1851-1939 1898
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