Italicism
See also: italicism
English
Etymology
Italic + -ism
Noun
Italicism (plural Italicisms)
- A phrase or idiom peculiar to the Italian language.
- Synonym: Italianism
Coordinate terms
- (foreignisms) foreignism; anglicism, Arabism, Gallicism, Germanism / Teutonism, Grecism / Hellenism, Hebraism, Hispanism, Hungarianism / Magyarism, Irishism, Italianism / Italicism, Japanism, Latinism, Polonism, Russianism, Sinicism, Slavism, Turkism, Yiddishism
References
- Italicism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Islamitic