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–adjective

1.	designating or pertaining to a style of printing types in which the letters usually slope to the right, patterned upon a compact manuscript hand, and used for emphasis, to separate different kinds of information, etc.: These words are in italic type.

2.	(initial capital letter) of or pertaining to Italy, esp. ancient Italy or its tribes.

–noun

3.	Often, italics. italic type.

4.	(initial capital letter) a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, including ancient Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, and modern Romance.

[Origin: 1555–65; < L Italicus < Gk Italikós, equiv. to Ital(ía) Italy + -ikos -ic

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I·tal·ic Audio Help (ĭ-tāl'ĭk, ī-tāl'-) Pronunciation Key
adj.

Of or relating to ancient Italy or its peoples or cultures.
Of or relating to the branch of the Indo-European language family that includes Latin, Faliscan, Oscan, Umbrian, and the Romance languages.
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.

The Italic branch of Indo-European.
Italic print or typeface. Often used in the plural.

[Latin Italicus, from Italia, Italy.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
italic

1612, from L. italicus "Italian;" so called because it was introduced in 1501 by Aldus Manutius, printer of Venice (who also gave his name to Aldine), and first used in an edition of Virgil dedicated to Italy. Earlier (1571) the word was used for the plain, sloping style of handwriting, as opposed to Gothic. Italicize "to print in italics" (for emphasis, etc.) is from 1795.

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italic
adjective
1.	characterized by slanting characters; "italic characters"
2.	of or relating to the Italic languages; "ancient Italic dialects"
noun
1.	a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right
2.	a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative
3.	a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
italic [iˈtӕlik, aiˈtalik] adjective

(of print) of the sloping kind used eg to show emphasis and for the examples in this dictionary
Example: This example is printed in italic type.

Arabic:	حَرْف مائِل
Chinese (Simplified):	斜体的
Chinese (Traditional):	斜體的
Czech:	psaný kurzivou
Danish:	kursiv
Dutch:	cursief
Estonian:	kursiiv-
Finnish:	kursiivi-
French:	italique
German:	kursiv
Greek:	κυρτός, πλάγιος
Hungarian:	dőlt (betű)
Icelandic:	skáletraður
Indonesian:	huruf miring
Italian:	corsivo

Japanese:	イタリック体の
Korean:	이탤릭체의
Latvian:	kursīvs
Lithuanian:	kursyvinis
Norwegian:	kursiv-
Polish:	kursywa
Portuguese (Brazil):	itálico
Portuguese (Portugal):	itálico
Romanian:	italic
Russian:	курсивный
Slovak:	kurzíva
Slovenian:	kurziven
Spanish:	cursiva
Swedish:	kursiv
Turkish:	eğik yazı, italik

See also: italicize, italicise, italics

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Italic

Com*pos"ite\ (?; 277), a. [L. compositus made up of parts, p. p. of componere. See Compound, v. t., and cf. Compost.]

1. Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language.

Happiness, like air and water . . . is composite. --Landor.

2. (Arch.) Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital.

3. (Bot.) Belonging to the order Composit[ae]; bearing involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.

Composite carriage, a railroad car having compartments of different classes. [Eng.]

Composite number (Math.), one which can be divided exactly by a number exceeding unity, as 6 by 2 or 3. .

Composite photograph or portrait, one made by a combination, or blending, of several distinct photographs. --F. Galton.

Composite sailing (Naut.), a combination of parallel and great circle sailing.

Composite ship, one with a wooden casing and iron frame.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Italic

I*tal"ian\, a. [Cf. F. italien, It. italiano. Cf. Italic.] Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language.

Italian cloth a light material of cotton and worsted; -- called also farmer's satin.

Italian iron, a heater for fluting frills.

Italian juice, Calabrian liquorice.

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