Word.ws English Dictionary

rotalic

rotalic adjective: having letters rotated for emphasis, rather than slanted as in traditional italic.

Adjective

rotalic (not comparable)

  1. Having letters rotated for emphasis, rather than slanted as in traditional italic.

Noun

rotalic (uncountable)

  1. A variant of italic in which letters are rotated, rather than slanted.

Origin of rotalic

Blend of rotation + italic. Likely coined in 2007 by Swedish typographer Filip Tydén.

Questions about rotalic

What does rotalic mean?
Rotalic means having letters rotated for emphasis, rather than slanted as in traditional italic.
What part of speech is rotalic?
Rotalic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near rotalic in the dictionary

  1. rotacism
  2. rotacisms
  3. rotaevaporator
  4. rotaevaporators
  5. rotal
  6. rotalic
  7. rotaliid
  8. rotaliids
  9. rotaliine
  10. rotalite
  11. rotalites

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rotalic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “rotalic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/rotalic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.