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Italian

Italian \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.

Italian

Italian \I*tal"ian\, n.

  1. A native or inhabitant of Italy.

  2. The language used in Italy, or by the Italians.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Italian

early 15c., "native of Italy," from Italian Italiano, from Italia "Italy" (see Italy). As an adjective from 1640s.

Wikipedia
Italian

Italian may refer to:

  • Anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Italy
    • Italians, an ethnic group
    • Italian language, a Romance language
      • Regional Italian, regional variants of the Italian language
    • Languages of Italy, languages and dialects spoken in Italy
    • Italian cuisine, traditional foods
    • Folklore of Italy, the folklore and urban legends of Italy
    • Mythology of Italy, traditional religion

Usage examples of "italian".

Enzo Sereni, another graduate of the accommodationist Italian movement, had been the emissary in Germany in 1931-2, but he had done nothing to either mobilise the German Jews or assist the SPD in their fight against the Nazis.

Macedonia, Antony sent the Legio Martia and two others up the Adriatic coast of the peninsula toward Italian Gaul.

Octavian learned that Antony had changed his mind about driving for Rome through Campania and turned to follow his first three legions up the Adriatic coast to Italian Gaul and Decimus Brutus, he decided to march on Rome.

Firmum Picenum promised money, the Marrucini of northern Adriatic Samnium threatened to strip Marrucine objectors of their property, and hundreds of rich Italian knights subsidized the equipping of troops.

Upon that Commission the interested nations, that is to say--putting them in alphabetical order--the Africander, the Briton, the Belgian, the Egyptian, the Frenchman, the Italian, the Indian the Portuguese--might all be represented in proportion to their interest.

The following year, the year of the great consecration ceremony and the closing of the dome, Alberti offered an Italian version dedicated to Filippo Brunelleschi, who always wrote and spoke in the vernacular himself.

I always read prefaces, and Martelli proves there that his verses have the same effect in Italian as our Alexandrine verses have in French.

He had even speculated that the French were frightened that the bomb ketches might be attacked by the Algerine pirates, still occasionally raiding the Italian coasts.

Her features were exquisite and her voice charming, while she made me split my sides with laughing at her Italian pronounced with an Alsatian accent, and at her gestures which were of the most comic description.

Napoleon, altho he rose to be Emperor of the French, was a Corsican by birth and an Italian by descent.

Almost every evening, when she happened to see me at her card-table, the beautiful marchioness would address to me a few gracious words in French, and I always answered in Italian, not caring to make her laugh before so many persons.

She, who was happy and in high spirits, answered in Italian, and delighted them by her intelligence, and the grace which she gave to her mistakes in grammar.

Spanish well, and I shall only give written answers to any questions that may be asked of me, in Italian, French, or Latin.

It served as the boundary between Italian Gaul and Italia proper on the western side of the Apennine watershed.

Yet as far as we can trust to the obscure chronology of that period, it appears that the operations of some foreign war deferred the Italian expedition till the ensuing spring.