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 alphabetsystems used by those peoples for writing their languages.
Proper Noun
An Italic language.
Origin
Via Latin from Ancient Greek Ἰταλικός, from Ἰταλία.
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