italo

See also: Italo, ítalo, Ítalo, italo-, Italo-, and ítalo-

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Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): [iˈtalo]
• Rhymes: -alo
• Hyphenation: i‧ta‧lo

Noun

italo (accusative singular italon, plural italoj, accusative plural italojn)

1. an Italian (person from Italy)

Hypernyms

• eŭropano (“European”)

Related terms

• itala (“Italian”)
• Italio (“Italy”)

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin ītalus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.ta.lo/
• Rhymes: -italo
• Hyphenation: ì‧ta‧lo

Adjective

italo (feminine itala, masculine plural itali, feminine plural itale)

1. (literary, poetic) Italian, Italic
   • 1807, Ugo Foscolo, Dei Sepolcri‎^[1], Molini, Landi e comp., published 1809, page 15:

     in un tempio accolte ¶ serbi l'itale glorie

     gathered in a temple you keep the Italian glories

   • 1898, Giosuè Carducci, Rime e ritmi [Rhymes and rhythms]‎^[2], collected in Poesie, Nicola Zanichelli, published 1906, page 1012:

     Itala gente da le molte vite, ¶ dove che albeggi la tua notte e un’ombra ¶ vagoli spersa de’ vecchi anni, vedi ¶ ivi il poeta.

     Italian people with many lives, wherever your night dawns and a shadow of old years wanders around lost, there you see the poet.

   Synonyms: italiano, italico

Related terms

• Itala
• Italia
• italiano
• italico

 

Noun

italo m (plural itali)

1. (rare) an Italian man
   • 1799, Vittorio Alfieri, “Conclusione [Conclusion]”, in Misogallo [The French-Hater]‎^[3], London, page 179, lines 1–3:

     Giorno verrà, tornerà il giorno, in cui ¶ Redivivi omai gl'Itali, staranno ¶ in campo audaci

     The day will come, the day will return, when the Italians living yet again, will be on the field, bold

Anagrams

• Olita, alito, alitò, ilota, olita

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) italō

1. dative/ablative singular of italus