Italicism

noun

Etymology

From Italic + -ism.

  1. derived from *wet-
  2. suffixed as italic — “Italy + ic
  3. suffixed as italicism — “Italic + ism

Definitions

  1. A phrase or idiom peculiar to the Italian language.

  2. The use of italics

    The use of italics: italicization.

  3. Alternative form of Italicism.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Italicism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA