italiano

See also: Italiano

Asturian

Adjective

italiano

1. neuter of italianu

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /itaˈljɐnʊ/

Adjective

italiano (feminine italiana, masculine plural italianos, feminine plural italianas)

1. Italian

Noun

italiano m (plural italianos, feminine italiana, feminine plural italianas)

1. Italian person

Noun

italiano m (uncountable)

1. Italian language

Related terms

• Italia

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.taˈlja.no/

Proper noun

italiano

1. Italian (language)

Italian

Alternative forms

• itagliano (informal pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ītaliānus (“Italian”). By surface analysis, Italia (“Italy”) +‎ -ano (“-an”, derivational suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.taˈlja.no/

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• Rhymes: -ano
• Hyphenation: i‧ta‧lià‧no

Adjective

italiano (feminine italiana, masculine plural italiani, feminine plural italiane, superlative italianissimo)

1. Italian (of, from or relating to Italy)
   • p. 1306 – 1348 (date written), Jacopo Alighieri, “Sopra l'universale essenza dell'universo” (chapter 1), in Il Dottrinale, lines 1–4; republished as Giovanni Crocioni, editor, Il Dottrinale di Jacopo Alighieri - Edizione critica con note e uno studio preliminare‎^[1], Città di Castello: S. Lapi tipografo-editore, 1895:

     Adciò che sia palese / per ciaschedun paese / del sito italiano, / da presso e da lontano […]

     [Acciocché sia […] ]

     In order to make this known in every country of the Italian region, both near and far away […]

   • early 14^th century, Ciampolo di Meo degli Ugurgieri, “Libro settimo [Seventh book]”, in Eneide [Aeneid]; republished in Aurelio Gotti, editor, L'Eneide di Virgilio [Virgil's Aeneid]‎^[2], Florence: Le Monnier, 1858, page 245:

     O Dee, […] insegnatemi a cantare […] de’ quali uomini l’alma terra italiana sia fiorita, in quello tempo

     O Goddesses, […] teach me how to sing […] of how the noble Italian land was filled with such men, in those times

   • 1526, Niccolò Liburnio, “Dialogo di messer Niccolò Liburnio sopra le lettere del Trissino nuovamente imaginate nelle cose della lingua italiana”, Libro terzo [Third book], in Le tre fontane‎^[3], page 71:

     […] ſe non fuſſe ſtato il conſiglio, la ſapienza, & la dottrina del Triſſino, ſarebbeſi perſo deltutto il ſplendore della pronuntia italiana.

     [ […] se non fusse stato il consiglio, la sapienza e la dottrina del Trissino, sarebbesi perso del tutto il splendore della pronunzia italiana.]

     […] had it not been for Trissino's forethought, knowledge and doctrine, the splendor of the Italian pronunciation would have been completely lost.

Noun

italiano m (plural italiani, feminine italiana)

1. Italian (native or inhabitant of Italy) (usually male)

Noun

italiano m (uncountable)

2. the Italian language

Anagrams

• laotiani, oliatina

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪ.ta.liˈaː.noː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [i.ta.liˈaː.no]

Adjective

italiānō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of italiānus

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Oscan 𐌅𐌝𐌕𐌄𐌋𐌉𐌞 (víteliú)bor.?

Ancient Greek Ῑ̓ταλίᾱ (Ītalíā)der.

Latin Ītalialbor.

Old Galician-Portuguese Italia

Portuguese Itália

Portuguese -ano

Portuguese italiano

From Itália + -ano.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /i.ta.liˈɐ̃.nu/ [i.ta.lɪˈɐ̃.nu], (faster pronunciation) /i.taˈljɐ̃.nu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /i.ta.liˈɐ̃.nu/ [i.ta.lɪˈɐ̃.nu], (faster pronunciation) /i.taˈljɐ̃.nu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /i.ta.liˈɐ.no/ [i.ta.lɪˈɐ.no], (faster pronunciation) /i.taˈljɐ.no/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /i.tɐˈljɐ.nu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /i.tɐˈljɐ.nu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /i.tɐˈlja.nu/

• Rhymes: -ɐnu
• Hyphenation: i‧ta‧li‧a‧no

Adjective

italiano (feminine italiana, masculine plural italianos, feminine plural italianas, comparable, comparative mais italiano, superlative o mais italiano or italianíssimo, diminutive italianinho, augmentative italianão)

1. Italian (of or relating to Italy)
2. Italian (relating to the Italian language)

Noun

italiano m (plural italianos, feminine italiana, feminine plural italianas)

1. Italian (person from Italy or of Italian descent)

Derived terms

• italianamente
• italianão (augmentative)
• italianinho (diminutive)
• italianozinho (diminutives)

Related terms

• itálico
• italiota
• Ítalo
• ítalo
• talian

Noun

italiano m (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) Italian (Romance language spoken in Italy)
2. (uncountable) the Venetan dialect spoken in Brazil

   Synonym: talian

Further reading

• “italiano”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /itaˈljano/ [i.t̪aˈlja.no]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ano
• Syllabification: i‧ta‧lia‧no

Adjective

italiano (feminine italiana, masculine plural italianos, feminine plural italianas)

1. Italian (from or native to Italy)
   • 2024 April 29, Peter Valdes-Dapena, “Rolls-Royce amplía su fábrica para construir coches más despacio”, in CNN en Español‎^[4]:

     Los fabricantes italianos de supercoches Lamborghini y Ferrari también han informado de un mayor interés por los programas de personalización.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. Italian (pertaining to Italy)
3. (Chile) (of a hot dog or a sandwich) having avocado, mayonnaise, and tomato

Derived terms

• galgo italiano
• gorrión italiano
• italianizar
• lebrel italiano
• República Italiana

Noun

italiano m (plural italianos, feminine italiana, feminine plural italianas)

1. an Italian

Noun

italiano m (plural italianos)

1. (Chile) clipping of completo italiano, a hot dog (especially with avocado, mayonnaise, and tomato)

Noun

italiano m (uncountable)

1. Italian (language)

Further reading

• “italiano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025