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Italical

Italical is the archaic form of Italic.

Meaning of Italic

Adjective

Italic (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the Italian peninsula.
  2. (Indo-European-studies) 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
    1. (Indo-European-studies, dated) Osco-Umbrian; an extinct branch of such language family, which excludes the Latino-Faliscan languages
      • The ancient Italic languages that are now extinct include Oscan, Umbrian, and South Picene.
  3. (historical) 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.
    • There were several Italic alphabets, one being the Etruscan alphabet.

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Questions about Italical

What is Italical the archaic form of?
Italical is the archaic form of Italic.

Words near Italical in the dictionary

  1. Italianness
  2. Italiano
  3. Italianos
  4. Italians
  5. italic
  6. Italical
  7. italically
  8. italicisation
  9. italicisations
  10. italicise
  11. italicised

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