a Romance language spoken in Italy, Corsica, and the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. of or pertaining to Italy, its people, or their language. [13501400; Middle English Medieval Latin] The pronunciation ofItalianwith an initial () sound (pronounced like ) is heard primarily from uneducated speakers. It is sometimes used facetiously or disparagingly and is usu. considered offensive. Random House Kernerman Websters College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. ItaliaItalian RepublicItaly- a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD European- a native or inhabitant of Europe Etruscan- a native or inhabitant of ancient Etruria; the Etruscans influenced the Romans (who had suppressed them by about 200 BC) 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 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 - the Romance language spoken in Italy Signora- an Italian title or form of address for a married woman Signorina- an Italian title or form of address for an unmarried woman Latinian languageRomance languageRomance- the group of languages derived from Latin 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) ItaliaItalian RepublicItaly- a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD - of or pertaining to or characteristic of Italy or its people or culture or language; Italian cooking Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc. 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You can also log in with And if, as I said, it was necessary that the people of Israel should be captive so as to make manifest the ability of Moses; that the Persians should be oppressed by the Medes so as to discover the greatness of the soul of Cyrus; and that the Athenians should be dispersed to illustrate the capabilities of Theseus: then at the present time, in order to discover the virtue of an spirit, it was necessary that Italy should be reduced to the extremity that she is now in, that she should be more enslaved than the Hebrews, more oppressed than the Persians, more scattered than the Athenians; without head, without order, beaten, despoiled, torn, overrun; and to have endured every kind of desolation. grammar on my way across the Atlantic, and from my knowledge of Latin, Spanish, and French, I soon had a reading acquaintance with the language. They protested that they did not wish to be there when it happened, and some one suggested going to a big rancho four miles away, where they could get up a dance. Hence it resulted that though the Middle Ages were in Italy a period of terrible political anarchy, yet culture recovered far more rapidly than that of the northern nations, whom the continued down to the modern period to regard contemptuously as still mere barbarians. He painted studies from nature under the guidance of an professor of painting, and studied medieval Arriving under the shadow of the Pyncheon Elm, it proved to be the boy, who, with his monkey and show of puppets, had once before played his hurdy-gurdy beneath the arched window. , was your excellency then aware of my visit? did not bring the soap at once, but there was a good reason for it. Once when he was sitting on his garden wall, smoking a pipe in the evening, an organ- grinder came round with a monkey on a string. At that moment Anna Pavlovna came up and, looking severely at Pierre, asked the I had hardly rung the bell before the house door was opened violently; my worthy friend, Professor Pesca, appeared in the servants place; and darted out joyously to receive me, with a shrill foreign parody on an English cheer. line and she hopped up and marched out of the car with as firm a leg as any washerwoman of all her tribe! 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