italic
Meanings
adj
- Designed to resemble a handwriting style developed in Italy in the 16th century.
- Having letters that slant or lean to the right; oblique.
noun
- A typeface in which the letters slant to the right.
- An oblique handwriting style, such as used by Italian calligraphers of the Renaissance.
adj
- Of or relating to the Italian peninsula.
- Pertaining to a subfamily of the Centum branch of the Indo-European language family, that includes Latin and other languages (as Oscan, Umbrian) spoken by the peoples of ancient Italy
- Osco-Umbrian; an extinct branch of such language family, which excludes the Latino-Faliscan languages
- 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.
name
- The Italic family taken as a whole.
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Etymology
Named after the nation of Italy, as it was first used by an Italian printer, Aldo Manuzio, around 1500. Literally Italy + -ic.
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