Italic

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or relating to the Italian peninsula.
• Pertaining to a subfamily of the Centum branch of the Indo-European language family, that includes Latin and other languages (as Oscan, Umbrian) spoken by the peoples of ancient Italy and also the Romance languages (Italian, French, Spanish, etc.); the group of ancient languages of this branch as contrasted with the modern Romance languages; Osco-Umbrian
• Pertaining to various peoples that lived in Italy before the establishment of the Roman Empire, or to any of several alphabet systems used by those peoples for writing their languages.

Proper Noun

• An Italic language.

Origin

• Via Latin from Ancient Greek Ἰταλικός, from Ἰταλία.