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Definition of Italic adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Italic

adjective

/ɪˈtælɪk/

/ɪˈtælɪk/

[only before noun] (specialist)

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of or connected with the branch of Indo-European languages that includes Latin and some other ancient languages of Italy, and the Romance languages
Word Originlate 19th cent.: via Latin from Greek Italikos, from Italia ‘Italy’.

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