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- Italian - a. - Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language.
- Italian - n. - A native or inhabitant of Italy.
- Italian - n. - The language used in Italy, or by the Italians.
- Italianate - v. t. - To render Italian, or conformable to Italian customs; to Italianize.
- Italianate - a. - Italianized; Italianated.
- Italianism - n. - A word, phrase, or idiom, peculiar to the Italians; an Italicism.
- Italianism - n. - Attachment to, or sympathy for, Italy.
- Italianize - v. i. - To play the Italian; to speak Italian.
- Italianize - v. i. - To render Italian in any respect; to Italianate.
- Italianized - imp. & p. p. - of Italianize
- Italianizing - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Italianize
- Podesta - n. - One of the chief magistrates of the Italian republics in the Middle Ages.
- Zampogna - n. - A sort of bagpipe formerly in use among Italian peasants. It is now almost obsolete.
- Vettura - n. - An Italian four-wheeled carriage, esp. one let for hire; a hackney coach.
- Medicean - a. - Of or relating to the Medici, a noted Italian family; as, the Medicean Venus.
- Palladian - a. - Of, pertaining to, or designating, a variety of the revived classic style of architecture, founded on the works of Andrea Palladio, an Italian architect of the 16th century.
- Italicism - n. - A phrase or idiom peculiar to the Italian language; to Italianism.
- Harlequin - n. - A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy.
- Ridotto - n. - A favorite Italian public entertainment, consisting of music and dancing, -- held generally on fast eves.
- Monarcho - n. - The nickname of a crackbrained Italian who fancied himself an emperor.
- Tuscan - a. - Of or pertaining to Tuscany in Italy; -- specifically designating one of the five orders of architecture recognized and described by the Italian writers of the 16th century, or characteristic of the order. The original of this order was not used by the Greeks, but by the Romans under the Empire. See Order, and Illust. of Capital.
- Composite - v. t. - Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital.
- Sequin - n. - An old gold coin of Italy and Turkey. It was first struck at Venice about the end of the 13th century, and afterward in the other Italian cities, and by the Levant trade was introduced into Turkey. It is worth about 9s. 3d. sterling, or about $2.25. The different kinds vary somewhat in value.
- Signior - n. - Sir; Mr. The English form and pronunciation for the Italian Signor and the Spanish Seor.
- Stiacciato - n. - The lowest relief, -- often used in Italian sculpture of the 15th and 16th centuries.
- Carving - n. - The whole body of decorative sculpture of any kind or epoch, or in any material; as, the Italian carving of the 15th century.
- Paul - n. - An Italian silver coin. See Paolo.
- Raphaelism - n. - The principles of painting introduced by Raphael, the Italian painter.
- Ionic - a. - Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes. See Illust. of Capital.
- Malpighian - a. - Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Marcello Malpighi, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century.
- Vermicelli - n. - The flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender, wormlike form, whence the Italian name. When the paste is made in larger tubes, it is called macaroni.
- Gailliarde - n. - A lively French and Italian dance.
- Charybdis - n. - A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.
- Hythe - n. - A small haven. See Hithe. I () I, the ninth letter of the English alphabet, takes its form from the Phoenician, through the Latin and the Greek. The Phoenician letter was probably of Egyptian origin. Its original value was nearly the same as that of the Italian I, or long e as in mete. Etymologically I is most closely related to e, y, j, g; as in dint, dent, beverage, L. bibere; E. kin, AS. cynn; E. thin, AS. /ynne; E. dominion, donjon, dungeon.
- Lira - n. - An Italian coin equivalent in value to the French franc.
- Etacism - n. - The pronunciation of the Greek / (eta) like the Italian e long, that is like a in the English word ate. See Itacism.
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