italicize

English

Alternative forms

• italicise (Commonwealth)

Etymology

From italic +‎ -ize.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĭ-tăl'ĭ-sīz'

Verb

italicize (third-person singular simple present italicizes, present participle italicizing, simple past and past participle italicized) (transitive)

1. (typography) To put into italics.
2. (figuratively) To emphasize.

Derived terms

• italicization
• unitalicize

Translations

to put into italics

• Danish: kursivere
• Dutch: cursiveren (nl)
• Finnish: kursivoida (fi)
• Hungarian: kurzivál (hu)
• Ido: kursivigar (io)
• Maori: whakaitāriana
• Portuguese: grifar
• Swedish: kursivera (sv)