ja イタリック (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · cmn 斜體的 /斜体的 (having a slant to the right) · gv iddaalagh (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · eo kursivo (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · es cursivo (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · id kursif (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · ga iodálach (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · it corsivo (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · he נָטוּי (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · tr italik (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · es itálico (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · de kursiv (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · no kursiv (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · ru курси́вный (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · it corsiva (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · fi kursiivi (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · da kursiv (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · tr eğimli (having a slant to the right) · pl przechylony w prawo (having a slant to the right) · gl cursiva (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · fr italique (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · lad italiko (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · fi kursiivinen (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · ca itàlica (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · pl zapisany kursywą (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · es bastardillo (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · ca cursiva (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · cs kurzivní (having a slant to the right) · hu dőlt (having a slant to the right) · tr eğik (having a slant to the right) · ja 斜体の (having a slant to the right) · nl cursief (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · id miring (having a slant to the right) · bg курсивен (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · ru накло́нный (having a slant to the right) · eo oblikvo (having a slant to the right) · hu kurzív (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · sv kursiv (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · gd clò eadailteach (designed to resemble a handwriting style) · pt itálico (designed to resemble a handwriting style)
Named after the nation of Italy, as it was first used by an Italian printer, Aldo Manuzio, around 1500. Literally Italy + -ic.
Meanings
A typeface in which the letters slant to the right.
[…] ROBERT GRANJON, possibly in collaboration with CLAUDE GARAMOND, had created an italic which matched Garamond Roman. 1983, Ida M. Kimber, The Art of Lettering, translation of original by Albert Kapr, page 329:
Names of vessels, as the Kearsarge or the Alabama, are frequently put in italic. 1902, Theodore Low DeVinne, The Practice of Typography: Correct Composition, page 104:
An oblique handwriting style, such as used by Italian calligraphers of the Renaissance.
Spenser uses two different scripts: an Elizabethan secretary hand for English texts, and an italic 'mixed' with secretary graphs for Latin texts […] 1990, Albert Charles Hamilton, The Spenser Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 345:
cmn 斜體 /斜体 (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · el πλάγιος χαρακτήρας (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · tr italik (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · de Kursivdruck (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · ga iodálaigh (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · cs kurziva (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · cs kurzíva (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · es cursiva (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · fi kursiivi (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · pt itálico (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · es letra itálica (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · es letra cursiva (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · ca cursiva (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · mi tuhi tītaha (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · de Kursivschrift (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · ga cló iodálach (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · es letra bastardilla (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · fo skráskrift (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · hy շղատառ (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · es itálica (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · sv kursiv (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · ja 斜体 (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · id italik (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · hy շղագիր (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · es bastardilla (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · pl kursywa (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · cs italika (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · ru курси́в (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · gd clò eadailteach (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · is skáletur (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · fr italique (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · fo skákskrift (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · ja イタリック (typeface whose letters slant to the right) · bg курсив (typeface whose letters slant to the right)