# Italian
## English

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### Etymology

From Middle English Italian, from Medieval Latin Italiānus, from Latin Italia (“Italy”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪˈtæliən/, enPR: ĭ-tăl'ē-ən
** Audio (General American):(file)
* (US, less common, see Eye-talian) IPA: /aɪˈtæliən/, enPR: ī-tăl'ē-ən
* Rhymes: -æliən

### Adjective

Italian (comparative more Italian, superlative most Italian)
* Pertaining to Italy.
    Italian borders
* Pertaining to its people or their cultures.
    Hypernym: European
    Italian cuisines
* Pertaining to their language.
    Hypernym: Indo-European
    Italian verbs
* (obsolete, not comparable) Using an italic style; italic.
** 1868, Henry Noel Humphreys, A History of the Art of Printing, page 175:It has been shown that there was a great disposition on the part of some German printers, especially Albert Durer, to adopt the rounded Italian type; others preferring the crisp angularity of the Gothic black-letter, even for general purposes; while for books of devotion it appears to have been deemed the more orthodox; the Italian style of type being deemed an innovation.

#### Synonyms

* Italish

#### Derived terms

* anti-Italian
* Italian a
* Italian bee
* Italian bread
* Italian cloth
* Italian cypress
* Italian dandelion
* Italian dressing
* Italian East Africa
* Italian Game
* Italian greyhound
* Italian ice
* Italian iron
* Italian juice
* Italian kale
* Italian millet
* Italian paste
* Italian sighthound
* Italian Somaliland
* Italian strike
* Italian thistle
* Italian vermouth
* Sicilian Italian

#### Translations
### Noun

Italian (countable and uncountable, plural Italians)
* (countable) An inhabitant of Italy, or a person of Italian descent.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:Italian person
** 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎:As Di Matteo celebrated and captain John Terry raised the trophy for the fourth time, the Italian increased his claims to become the permanent successor to Andre Villas-Boas by landing a trophy.
* (uncountable) The official language of Italy, also spoken in San Marino, the Vatican, and parts of Argentina, Slovenia and Switzerland.
* (uncountable, cooking) A style of cuisine or individual dishes of or associated with Italy or Italian people.
** 1995, Betty Crocker's New Italian Cooking, page 5:Simple Cannoli, Lemon Ice, or a delicious Tira Mi Su. With so many wonderful recipes, you can eat Italian anytime.
* (countable, textiles) Short for Italian cloth.
* (uncountable) Short for Italian vermouth, a dark-colored sweet or mildly bitter vermouth.
    gin and Italian
** 1971, John Doxat, The World of Drinks and Drinking, page 102:So the English women would have been interested in American drinks, and in came the gin-and-Italian, for example.
* (countable, Maine) Short for Italian sandwich.

#### Meronyms

(language):
* Tuscan
** Corsican

#### Derived terms

* Old Italian
* Sicilian Italian

#### Translations
### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Italian terms
* Appendix:Italian Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Italian

### Further reading

* ISO 639-1 code it, ISO 639-3 code ita (SIL)
* Ethnologue entry for Italian, ita ⁠

### Anagrams

* Antilia, Taliani

## Basque
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /italian/ [i.t̪a.li.ãn]
* Rhymes: -ian, -an
* Hyphenation: I‧ta‧li‧an

### Proper noun

Italian
* inessive indefinite of Italia

## Finnish
### Proper noun

Italian
* genitive singular of Italia

### Anagrams

* laitain, liaanit, litania