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I·tal·ic

I0261100 (ĭ-tăl′ĭk, ī-tăl′-)adj.1. Of or relating to ancient Italy or its peoples or cultures.2. Of or relating to the branch of the Indo-European language family that includes Latin, Faliscan, Oscan, Umbrian, and the Romance languages.3. italic Of or being a style of printing type patterned on a Renaissance script with the letters slanting to the right: This sentence is printed in italic type.n.1. The Italic branch of Indo-European.2. often italics Italic print or typeface.

[Latin Italicus, from Italia, Italy.]

italic

(ɪˈtælɪk) adj Also: Italian of, relating to, or denoting a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the rightn1. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) a style of printing type modelled on this, chiefly used to indicate emphasis, a foreign word, etc. Compare roman¹2. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) (often plural) italic type or print[C16 (after an edition of Virgil (1501) printed in Venice and dedicated to Italy): from Latin Italicus of Italy, from Greek Italikos]

Italic

(ɪˈtælɪk) n (Languages) a branch of the Indo-European family of languages that includes many of the ancient languages of Italy, such as Venetic and the Osco-Umbrian group, Latin, which displaced them, and the Romance languagesadj (Languages) denoting, relating to, or belonging to this group of languages, esp the extinct ones

i•tal•ic

(ɪˈtæl ɪk, aɪˈtæl-)

adj. 1. designating or pertaining to a style of printing types in which the letters usu. slope to the right, used for emphasis, to separate different kinds of information, etc. 2. (cap.) of or pertaining to ancient Italy and its peoples prior to the expansion of Rome in the 3rd to 1st centuries b.c. n. 3. Often, italics. italic type. 4. (cap.) a family of languages, a branch of the Indo-European family, that was spoken in ancient Italy and includes Latin, Osco-Umbrian, and, in most classifications, Venetic. [1555–65; < Latin Italicus < Greek]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	italic - a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the rightcursive, cursive script, longhand, running hand - rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper
	2.	Italic - a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representativeItalic languageIndo-European language, Indo-Hittite, Indo-European - the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern AsiaOsco-Umbrian - a group of dead languages of ancient Italy; they were displace by LatinLatin - any dialect of the language of ancient Rome
	3.	italic - a typeface with letters slanting upward to the rightfont, fount, typeface, face, case - a specific size and style of type within a type family
Adj.	1.	italic - characterized by slanting characters; "italic characters"
	2.	Italic - of or relating to the Italic languages; "ancient Italic dialects"

Translations

斜体的

italic

(iˈtӕlik) , (aiˈtalik) adjective (of print) of the sloping kind used eg to show emphasis and for the examples in this dictionary. This example is printed in italic type.斜体的iˈtalicize, iˈtalicise (-saiz) verb to put (words) in italics. 用斜体字印刷iˈtalics noun plural italic print. This example is printed in italics. 斜体，斜体字

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see typetype,
for printing, was invented in China (c.1040), using woodblocks. Related devices, such as seals and stamps for making impressions in clay, had been used in ancient times in Babylon and elsewhere.
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Italic

(also cursive; see [2] below).

(1) A type style characterized by a slant to the right that is similar to that of handwriting; it is intended to emphasize parts of a text. Italics may be lightface or semibold. A word to be set in italic type is underlined with a wavy line. [This is the Soviet and European convention; in the USA a straight line is used.] This sentence is set in italic type.

(2) The cursive script of Latin and Greek writing, which arose as a result of the desire for speed and convenience of writing without lifting the pen; from this came letters that slope to the right and are joined in a single, continuous motion. The oldest cursive writing dates to the first or second century A.D.; it was widely used, beginning in the ninth century, in Greek and Byzantine writing for formal, diplomatic, and commercial correspondence.

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noun a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right

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noun a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative

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noun a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right

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