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italic

English

Alternative forms

  • italick

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: ?t?l??k, IPA(key): /??tæl?k/
  • (US) enPR: ?t?l??k, ?t?l??k, IPA(key): /??tæl?k/, /a??tæl?k/

Etymology

The typographic style is called italics because it was first used by an Italian printer, Aldo Manuzio, around 1500.

Adjective

italic (not comparable)

  1. (typography, of a typeface or font) Designed to resemble a handwriting style developed in Italy in the 16th century.
  2. (typography, of a typeface or font) Having letters that slant or lean to the right; oblique.
    The text was impossible to read: every other word was underlined or in a bold or italic font.

Usage notes

  • The sense of “oblique” is more recent, and still sometimes criticized, but is now by far the more common sense in everyday use.

Synonyms

  • cursive
  • oblique

Antonyms

  • (oblique): upright

Derived terms

  • italicize
  • italics

Related terms

  • roman
  • boldface

Translations

Noun

italic (plural italics)

  1. (typography) A typeface in which the letters slant to the right.
  2. An oblique handwriting style, such as used by Italian calligraphers of the Renaissance.

Translations

See also

  • Italian
  • Italic
  • italical

Romanian

Etymology

From French italique, from Latin italicus.

Adjective

italic m or n (feminine singular italic?, masculine plural italici, feminine and neuter plural italice)

  1. italic
  2. Italic

Declension

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greek

English

Etymology

Probably from Greek (unintelligible speech or text).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??i?k/
  • Rhymes: -i?k

Noun

greek (plural greeks)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Greek (nonsense writing or talk; gibberish).
  2. Alternative letter-case form of Greek (anal sex).

Verb

greek (third-person singular simple present greeks, present participle greeking, simple past and past participle greeked)

  1. (transitive, computing) To display a placeholder (instead of text), especially to optimize speed in displaying text that would be too small to read.
  2. (transitive, computing) To fill a template with nonsense text (particularly the Lorem ipsum), so that form can be focused on instead of content.

Derived terms

  • greeking (noun)

Related terms

  • it's all Greek to me

Anagrams

  • Gerke

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