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Italian

DEFINITIONS OF: Italian

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adj of or pertaining to or characteristic of Italy or its people or culture or language

Italian cooking”

n a native or inhabitant of Italy

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Guinea, dago, ginzo, greaseball, wop
(ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent
Etruscan
a native or inhabitant of ancient Etruria; the Etruscans influenced the Romans (who had suppressed them by about 200 BC)
Neopolitan
a resident of Naples
Roman
a resident of modern Rome
Sabine
a member of an ancient Oscan-speaking people of the central Apennines north of Rome who were conquered and assimilated into the Roman state in 290 BC
Venetian
a resident of Venice
Sicilian
a resident of Sicily
Tuscan
a resident of Tuscany
Oscan
an Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania
Samnite
an Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania who clashed repeatedly with the early Romans
Florentine
a native or resident of Florence, Italy
Genoese
a native or resident of Genoa
Milanese
a native or inhabitant of Milan
Neapolitan
a native or inhabitant of Naples
Sardinian
a native or inhabitant of Sardinia
mafioso
a member of the Sicilian Mafia
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European
a native or inhabitant of Europe

n the Romance language spoken in Italy

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Old Italian
the Italian language up to the middle of the 16th century
Sardinian
the Italian dialect spoken in Sardinia; sometimes considered a separate language with many loan words from Spanish
Tuscan
a dialect of Italian spoken in Tuscany (especially Florence)
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Latinian language, Romance, Romance language
the group of languages derived from Latin
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