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Definition of Italic
1. Adjective. Characterized by slanting characters. "Italic characters"
2. Noun. A style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right.
Derivative terms: Italicise, Italicize
3. Adjective. Of or relating to the Italic languages. "Ancient Italic dialects"
4. Noun. A branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative.
Generic synonyms: Indo-european, Indo-european Language, Indo-hittite
Specialized synonyms: Osco-umbrian, Latin
5. Noun. A typeface with letters slanting upward to the right.
Definition of Italic
1. a. Relating to Italy or to its people.
2. n. An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic,
Definition of Italic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the Italian peninsula. ¹
2. Adjective. (context linguistics) Pertaining to a subfamily of the w:Centum-Satem isogloss Centum branch of the Indo-European language family, that includes Latin and other languages (as Oscan, Umbrian) spoken by the peoples of ancient Italy and also the Romance languages (Italian, French, Spanish, etc.); the group of ancient languages of this branch as contrasted with the modern Romance languages; w:Osco-Umbrian languages Osco-Umbrian ¹
3. Adjective. (context ancient history) Pertaining to various peoples that lived in Italy before the establishment of the Roman Empire, or to any of several alphabet systems used by those peoples for writing their languages. ¹
4. Proper noun. An Italic language. ¹
5. Adjective. (typography of a typeface or font) Designed to resemble a handwriting style developed in Italy in the 16th century. ¹
6. Adjective. (typography of a typeface or font) Having letters that slant or lean to the right; oblique. ¹
7. Noun. (typography) A typeface in which the letters slant to the right. ¹
8. Noun. An oblique handwriting style, such as used by Italian calligraphers of the Renaissance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Italic
1. a style of print [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Italic
Literary usage of Italic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters & Lettering: A Treatise with 200 Examples by Frank Chouteau Brown (1921)
"The first italic type letter was derived, it is said, from the handwriting of
Petrarch, and several admirable examples of the style, variously treated, ..."
2. The Practice of Typography: Correct Composition; a Treatise on Spelling by Theodore Low De Vinne (1904)
"This underscoring should be done by the writer wherever italic is really needed.
A general direction to put in italic a class of words not so marked may not ..."
3. A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: With Notes, Historical and by Talbot Baines Reed (1887)
"Augustin italic 18. Pica italic 19. Nonpareil italic 20. ... For the Double Pica
Roman and italic, and some for the Double Pica Greek. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"Thus the cities of Magna Graecia which were united in the sixth century for mutual
defence against the semi-barbarous italic races issued coins in. which a ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"italic group, comprising Latin and the Oscan-Umbrian dialects. ... It is possible,
perhaps even likely, that the Celtic and italic groups arose from one ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1908)
"... a centurion of the italic cohort, whose conversion at Cesárea with hie household
is related in Acts, x. The Roman name Cornelius would indicate that he ..."
7. Greek and Roman [mythology] by William Sherwood Fox (1916)
"NATIVE italic GODS (a) Nature-Gods: Of the Sky, Atmosphere, and Time Iuppiter.
... the chief god of all the italic stocks, was a personification of the sky ..."
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