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Definition: Italic |
ItalicAdjective1. Characterized by slanting characters; "italic characters". 2. Of or relating to the Italic languages; "ancient Italic dialects". Noun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "italic" was first used: 1571. (references) |
Synonym: ItalicSynonym: Italic language (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: italicizing (general). |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Italic also refers to certain typefaces (many of which have no connection to Italy). Italic type is derived from Renaissance handwriting style. The letters are slanted to the right, like this. An italic typeface is usually related to a roman typeface, but most typographers design two (or more) related faces, rather than simply slanting the roman type in a mechanical way. For instance, in most typefaces meant for reading the roman "a" is distinct from italic "a", same with "g" and "g". Some typefaces, such as the Computer Modern family designed by Donald Knuth, have both an italicized and a slanted version.
Italics indicates a stressing of a particular topic which may be considered important by readers, or which the writer wants to call attention to. It is also a way of differentiating words that are characteristically strange, or foreign. Words or phrases that are being discussed as words rather than used for their meanings are frequently italicized. Italics and small caps are examples of inconspicuous stressing: The reader's attention is only drawn to words marked this way when reading them, while they are not easily spotted when glancing at a page, as bold variants are.
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Italic family of the Indo-European language group had two branches:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Italic."
Crosswords: Italic |
| English words defined with "italic": Itala, Italics ♦ Oscan ♦ Umbrian. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "italic": Italic School of Philosophy, Italic Version ♦ Philosophers ♦ Ramseyer Rule. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Italic" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (italics). |
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Health | Medical terms are shown in italic print and are explained in the text or in the glossary. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Italic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 61.76% of the time. "Italic" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 61.76% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 38.24% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 34 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "italic": italic language ♦ Italic languages ♦ Italic order ♦ Italic school ♦ italic type ♦ Italic version. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
italic | 42 |
italic handwriting | 19 |
rage italic | 8 |
rage italic font | 6 |
calligraphy italic | 4 |
html italic | 4 |
cursive italic print | 4 |
css italic | 4 |
italic language | 3 |
italic writing | 3 |
font italic | 3 |
cursive italic | 3 |
harlow italic solid | 3 |
italic use | 3 |
font free italic rage | 3 |
by dubay getty handwriting italic series | 2 |
italic squirrel | 2 |
italic letter | 2 |
free italic rage | 2 |
antiquity art italic other | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "italic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kursiv (cursive), germa kursive. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مائلي متعلق بالحرف الطباعي, حرف طباعي مائل, إيطاليقي متعلق بإيطاليا القديمة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | курсивен (cursive), италийски езици, италийски. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 斜"字. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kurzívní (cursive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kursivskrift, kursivbogstav. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | italiek, cursieve letter, cursief letter, cursief (italicized, italics). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | وابسته به ایتالیاءی های قدیم , حروف کج , حروف خوابیده . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vinokirjasin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | italiques (italics), italique (italics), lettre italique, caractère italique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kursivschrift (cursive, italics). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κυρτά γράμματα (italics), λειψίας. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kurzív (cursive), dõlt betû. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | huruf miring. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | corsivo (cursive, in italics, italics). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | イタリア語 (Italian language). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | イタリック . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 이탤리체 글자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | iddaalagh (Italian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | italicay itálico. (various references) literã cursivã, cursiv (cursive, cursively, fluent, fluently, readable, running). (various references) курсив (emphasis added, italic type, italics). (various references) ukošen (supine), kurzivan (cursive). (various references) itálico, letra itálica (italics), carácter itálico, carácter aldino. (various references) kursiv (cursive, italics). (various references) เกี่ยวกับอิตาลีโบรา", ตัวอักษรแบบตัวเอน, าษาหนึ่งในตระกูล Indo-European. (various references) italik. (various references) італійський (italian), романський (romance, romanesque, romanic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | italicus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "italic": italicise, italicised, italicises, italicising, italicization, italicizations, italicize, italicized, italicizes, italicizing, italics. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "italic": genitalic. (additional references) | |
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"Italic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atolic, Bitflik, etzli, Fintalich, ialac, ialic, idilic, Ifaluk, Itala, italc, Itale, itali, italica, Italie, italix, itallic, itally, Italys, Itela, Ittala, Ivalace, stalic, talic, Talica, Talich. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "italic" (pronounced īta"lik) |
| 5 | -t a" l i k | metallic. |
| 4 | -a" l i k | Alec, anencephalic, gallic, phallic. |
| 3 | -l i k | acrylic, alcoholic, allelic, anabolic, angelic, bucolic, catholic, diastolic, frolic, garlic, hydraulic, hydrophilic, hyperbolic, idyllic, melancholic, metabolic, nonalcoholic, nonpublic, parabolic, pedophilic, phenolic, psychedelic, public, relic, shashlik, symbolic, vitriolic, workaholic. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-l-t" | |
-1 letter: cilia, iliac, licit, litai, tical. | |
-2 letters: alit, clit, ilia, laic, lati, tail, talc, tali. | |
-3 letters: act, ail, ait, alt, cat, lac, lat, lit, tic, til. | |
-4 letters: ai, al, at, it, la, li, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-l-t" | |
+1 letter: albitic, aplitic, ciliate, italics. | |
+2 letters: biotical, calcitic, chiliast, ciliated, ciliates, climatic, comitial, critical, dialytic, facility, iatrical, marlitic, platinic, silicate, uralitic, viatical, villatic. | |
+3 letters: acclivity, albinotic, aliphatic, altricial, anaclitic, anticline, anticling, articling, ballistic, bicipital, chairlift, chiliasts, chirality, ciliation, circuital, cisplatin, cladistic, clarities, climactic, clintonia, coalition, coitional, deistical, dialectic, diastolic, dictional, dualistic, eristical, fatidical, fictional, genitalic, gracility, identical, idiotical, implicate, inelastic, italicise, italicize, laciniate, lateritic, laticifer, latticing, leviratic, melanitic, militance, militancy, miticidal, occipital, pearlitic, pictorial, piratical, placidity, plication, political, quitclaim, racialist, realistic, satirical, sciential, scintilla, silicates, socialist, socialite, sociality, tactility, tailpiece, trichinal, triclinia, triticale, vaticinal. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 74 61 6C 69 63 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. - .- .-.. .. -.-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01110100 01100001 01101100 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I t a l i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0074 0061 006C 0069 0063 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)438667787569 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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