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7 Letter Words for Italics
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Definitions for Italics
[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 relating to Italy, especially ancient Italy or its tribes.
[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.
[5] 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 languages
[6] denoting, relating to, or belonging to this group of languages, esp the extinct ones
[7] Also: Italian of, relating to, or denoting a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right
[8] a style of printing type modelled on this, chiefly used to indicate emphasis, a foreign word, etc Compare roman 1
[9] (often plural) italic type or print
Words related to Italics
italicfont, case, boldface, roman, agate, pica
Words nearby Italics
italicitalianate, italianism, italianist, italianize, italianizer, italic, italicism, italicize, italics, italo-, italophile
Origin of Italics
1555–65; < Latin Italicus < Greek Italikós, equivalent to Ital(ía ) Italy + -ikos -ic
Other words from Italics
non-I·tal·ic , adjective, noun
Word origin for Italics
C16 (after an edition of Virgil (1501) printed in Venice and dedicated to Italy): from Latin Italicus of Italy, from Greek Italikos