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Family of writing systems in ancient Italy
The Old Italic scripts are a family of ancient writing systems used in the Italian Peninsula between about 700 and 100 BC, for various languages spoken
Old_Italic_scripts
Unicode character block
Old Italic is a Unicode block containing a unified repertoire of several Old Italic scripts used in various parts of Italy starting about 700 BCE, including
Old_Italic_(Unicode_block)
Branch of the Indo-European language family
languages, see Romance studies. Most Italic languages (including Romance) are generally written in Old Italic scripts (or the descendant Latin alphabet and
Italic_languages
Alphabet used by the Etruscans of central and northern Italy
"western" ("red") type, the so-called Western Greek alphabet. Several Old Italic scripts, including the Latin alphabet, derived from it (or simultaneously
Etruscan_alphabet
System of runes for Proto-Germanic
Futhark runes are commonly believed to originate in the Old Italic scripts: either a North Italic variant (Etruscan or Rhaetic alphabets), or the Latin
Elder_Futhark
Incised characters that are intended to imitate runes
resemble runes, for example: Old Turkic script, Old Hungarian script, Old Italic scripts, Ancient South Arabian script. The term "pseudo-runes" has also
Pseudo-runes
Seventh letter of the Latin alphabet
direct descendant of zeta. Zeta took shapes like ⊏ in some of the Old Italic scripts; the development of the monumental form 'G' from this shape would
G
Ancient extinct language of the Alps
Switzerland, Slovenia and western Austria, in two variants of the Old Italic scripts. Rhaetic is largely accepted as a non-Indo-European language closely
Rhaetic
Fifth letter of the Latin alphabet
the letter epsilon, used to represent /e/. The various forms of the Old Italic script and the Latin alphabet followed this usage. Although Middle English
E
Topics referred to by the same term
Italy Italic languages, an Indo-European language family Old Italic alphabet, an alphabet of ancient Italy Italic script, a method of handwriting Italic type
Italic
Alphabet of the Latin language
other. This script evolved into a variety of regional medieval scripts (for example, the Merovingian, Visigothic and Benevantan scripts), to be later
Latin_alphabet
prolonged cultural dominance of Rome over Italy, writing in the other Old Italic scripts has only survived in limited quantities, with the Etruscan language
History_of_writing
Script of the Polish language
The Polish alphabet (Polish: alfabet polski, abecadło) is the script of the Polish language, the basis for the Polish system of orthography. It is based
Polish_alphabet
Font style with cursive typeface and slanted design
In typography, italic type (or italics, plurale tantum) is a cursive font based on a stylised form of calligraphic handwriting. Along with blackletter
Italic_type
Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters
orthography. Other proposals have gone further, proposing entirely new scripts for written English to replace the Latin alphabet such as the Deseret alphabet
English_alphabet
First letter of the Latin alphabet
These variants, the Italic and Roman forms, were derived from the Caroline Script version. The Italic form ⟨ɑ⟩, also called script a, is often used in
A
Writing system
i.e. lowercase italic Cyrillic ⟨т⟩, may look like small-capital italic ⟨T⟩. In Standard Serbian, as well as in Macedonian, some italic and cursive letters
Cyrillic_script
Writing system
rest of Asia used a variety of Brahmic scripts or the Chinese script. Through European colonization the Latin script has spread to the Americas, Oceania
Latin_script
Style of penmanship
joins and pen lifts. The writing style can be further divided as "looped", "italic", or "connected". The cursive method is used with many alphabets due to
Cursive
Writing system used c. 1050 to 146 BC
adaptations of the Phoenician alphabet thrived, including Greek, Old Italic and Anatolian scripts. The alphabet's attractive innovation was its phonetic nature
Phoenician_alphabet
Historic European script and typeface
the Old English language, which predates blackletter by many centuries and was written in the insular script or in Futhorc runes. Along with Italic type
Blackletter
Ancient Germanic letters
rune-like scripts Runology – Study of Runic alphabets Bautil – Swedish runology work of 1750 Runa ABC – First Swedish alphabet book Old Italic script – Family
Runes
Extinct language of southern Italy
was originally written in a specific "Oscan alphabet", one of the Old Italic scripts derived from (or cognate with) the Etruscan alphabet. Later inscriptions
Oscan_language
centuries secretary hand was slowly replaced by italic scripts, a semi-cursive group of scripts. Early italic hand, dating from the 15th century, was based
History_of_the_Latin_script
Latin extended alphabet used by Slovene
abɛˈtséːda] or slovenska gajica [- ˈɡáːjitsa]) is an extension of the Latin script used to write Slovene. The standard language uses a Latin alphabet which
Slovene_alphabet
Form of the Latin script used to write Czech language
for proper orthography in Czech. The earliest form of a separate Latin script specifically designed to suit Czech was devised by Czech theologian and
Czech_orthography
the early Latin alphabet one among several Old Italic scripts emerging at the time. The early Latin script was heavily influenced by the then regionally
Spread_of_the_Latin_script
Extinct Celtic language of continental Europe
tablets. Gaulish was first written in Greek script in southern France and in a variety of Old Italic script in northern Italy. After the Roman conquest
Gaulish
Form of Latin script used to write Serbo-Croatian
Voice of Russia and Facebook tend to use Cyrillic script. Some websites offer the content in both scripts, using Cyrillic as the source and auto generating
Gaj's_Latin_alphabet
details varied from period to period. The alphabet developed from Old Italic script, which had developed from a variant of the Greek alphabet, which in
Latin phonology and orthography
Latin_phonology_and_orthography
Orthography of the Lithuanian language
Lithuanian orthography employs a Latin-script alphabet of 32 letters, two of which denote sounds not native to the Lithuanian language. Additionally, it
Lithuanian_orthography
Latin language in the period before 70 BC
before the age of Classical Latin. A member of the Italic languages, it descends from a common Proto-Italic language; Latino-Faliscan is likely a separate
Old_Latin
Archaeological culture in Europe
interpreted as numerals, letters and words, possibly related to Etruscan or Old Italic scripts. Weights from Bavaria dating from the 7th to early 6th century BC
Hallstatt_culture
19th-Century Latin-Cyrillic mixed alphabet used in Romania as a transitional script
Romanian Cyrillic alphabet Romanian alphabet Re-latinization of Romanian Old Church Slavonic in Romania Stînea, Carmen (2009). "Din colecțiile bibliotecii
Romanian transitional alphabet
Romanian_transitional_alphabet
sigma-tau (στ'). The Old Italic and Anatolian alphabets are, like the Greek alphabet, attested from the 8th century BC. The Old Italic scripts trace their lineage
History_of_the_Greek_alphabet
Orthography of the Slovak language
hieroglyphs Proto-Sinaitic alphabet Phoenician alphabet Greek alphabet Old Italic scripts Latin alphabet Czech alphabet Slovak alphabet Unicode Unicode range
Slovak_orthography
subtype classification: Some scripts have typographical traditions with relatively simple mapping to Western sans-serif/serif/script classification. These mapped
List of typefaces included with macOS
List_of_typefaces_included_with_macOS
Branch of the Indo-European language family
single instance in the 2nd century BC on the Negau helmet, written in Old Italic script. From roughly the 1st to the 2nd century AD, or possibly even before
Germanic_languages
1920s–30s Soviet Latin alphabet for Turkic languages
Soviet Union in the 1930s for the Turkic languages. It replaced the Arabic script-based alphabets like Yaña imlâ used for Tatar in 1928, and was replaced
Yañalif
Ancestor of Latin and other Italic languages
The Proto-Italic language is the ancestor of the Italic languages, most notably Latin and its descendants, the Romance languages. It is not directly attested
Proto-Italic_language
Latin alphabet of the Hungarian language
letters). The Old Hungarian script is a writing system formerly used for the Hungarian language. It was derived from the Old Turkic script. Its usage began
Hungarian_alphabet
Topics referred to by the same term
ɵ 8, a common substitute for the ou-ligature ȣ 8, a letter in the Old Italic script (𐌚) with the value /f/ The Eight (novel), an American author Katherine
8_(disambiguation)
Any of three versions of shorthand system
Parent systems Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto-Sinaitic script Phoenician alphabet Greek alphabet Old Italic script Latin script English alphabet Speedwriting
Speedwriting
Set of letters in Filipino and other Philippine languages
languages Philippine scripts Tagbanwa script Hanunuo script Buhid script Kawi script Eskayan script Kulitan script Baybayin script Filipino braille Filipino
Filipino_alphabet
Orthography of the Latvian language
The modern Latvian orthography is based on Latin script adapted to phonetic principles, following the pronunciation of the language. The standard alphabet
Latvian_orthography
Geometrical figure
Phoenician tāw is still cross-shaped in Paleo-Hebrew alphabet and in some Old Italic scripts (Raetic and Lepontic), and its descendant T becomes again cross-shaped
Cross
Writing system used for the Sudanese language
script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Sundanese characters. Old Sundanese script (Sundanese:
Old_Sundanese_script
Runic alphabet letter
the Latin alphabet. The character ᚢ may have been derived from the Old Italic scripts, as such features various characters corresponding to elder runes
Ur_(rune)
Script MT Italic, Californian FB, Castellar, Centaur, Century, Century Schoolbook, Chiller, Colonna MT, Cooper Black, Dante, Dubai, Edwardian Script ITC
List of typefaces included with Microsoft Windows
List_of_typefaces_included_with_Microsoft_Windows
Extinct Italic language of central Italy
Iguvine tablets were written in two alphabets. The older, the Umbrian alphabet, like other Old Italic scripts, was derived from the Etruscan alphabet, and was
Umbrian_language
Latin letter used in some African orthographies
lowercase: ƒ) is a letter of the Latin script based on the letters F and f with a descender hook added. The italic form of the lowercase letter is used
Ƒ
is a member of the broad family of Italic languages. Its alphabet, the Latin alphabet, emerged from the Old Italic alphabets, which in turn were derived
History_of_Latin
Collective name covering the Montenegrin Latin alphabet and Montenegrin Cyrillic alphabet
government and proponents of the Montenegrin language prefer to use the Latin script exclusively; it is also much more widely used in all aspects of the day-to-day
Montenegrin_alphabet
Alphabet invented for writing the Osage language
The Osage script is a script promulgated in 2006 and revised 2012–2014 for the Osage language. Because Latin orthographies were subject to interference
Osage_script
Century Schoolbook (Roman, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic) Palatino (Roman, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic) ITC Zapf Chancery (Medium Italic) ITC Zapf Dingbats Many
PostScript_fonts
the Greek via the Old Italic alphabet. In the Early Middle Ages, Ogham was used in Ireland and runes (derived from Old Italic script) in Scandinavia. Both
Languages_of_Europe
Nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet
century BC, and over the following centuries, it developed into a range of Old Italic alphabets, including the Etruscan alphabet and the early Latin alphabet
S
Second letter of the Latin alphabet
during romanization 𐌁 : Old Italic B, which derives from Greek Beta ᛒ : Runic letter Berkanan, which probably derives from Old Italic B 𐌱 : Gothic letter
B
Extinct language of ancient Italy
aranθ/aranθiia. The Latin script owes its existence to the Etruscan alphabet, which was adapted for Latin in the form of the Old Italic script. The Etruscan alphabet
Etruscan_language
Ideographic scripts (in which graphemes are ideograms representing concepts or ideas rather than a specific word in a language) and pictographic scripts (in which
List_of_writing_systems
Eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet
CAPITAL REVERSED DOTTED LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL. Sigma was adopted in the Old Italic alphabets beginning in the 8th century BC. At that time a simplified three-stroke
Sigma
Character encoding standard
handful of scripts—often primarily between a given script and Latin characters—not between a large number of scripts, and not with all of the scripts supported
Unicode
Three related alphabets used to write Georgian
three scripts, Mkhedruli, once the official script of the Kingdom of Georgia and mostly used for the royal charters, is now the standard script for modern
Georgian_scripts
Medieval blackletter script
and other blackletter scripts is that broken bows appear only in a few letters such as d. The r rotunda (ꝛ), "rounded r", is an old letter variant commonly
Rotunda_(script)
Twentieth letter of the Latin alphabet
alphabets. The sound value of Semitic Taw, the Greek alphabet Tαυ (Tau), Old Italic and Latin T has remained fairly constant, representing [t] in each of
T
Writing systems
The Iberian scripts are the Paleohispanic scripts that were used to represent the extinct Iberian language. Most of them are typologically unusual in
Iberian_scripts
Typeface family commonly used by Microsoft
It was later extended to support Glagolitic, Gothic, Old Italic and Old Turkic (Orkhon) scripts, all now moved to Segoe UI Historic. It later gained support
Segoe
Old Hungarian (Unicode block) Old Italic (Unicode block) Old North Arabian (Unicode block) Old Permic (Unicode block) Old Persian (Unicode block) Old
List_of_Unicode_characters
Population of Picenum, on the northern Adriatic coastal plain of ancient Italy
The Picentes or Piceni or Picentini were an ancient Italic people who lived from the 9th to the 3rd century BC in the area between the Foglia and Aterno
Picentes
Official Cyrillic writing system for Serbian since the 10th century
Cyrillic scripts. In the Serbian Cyrillic script, these letters take on distinct shapes: б, г, д, п, т. However, their upright (non-italic) forms are
Serbian_Cyrillic_alphabet
Sixteenth letter of the Latin alphabet
the following symbols originally derive: Π π : Greek letter Pi 𐌐 : Old Italic and Old Latin P, which derives from Greek Pi, and is the ancestor of modern
P
Various scripts and typefaces of Renaissance Europe
scripts and typefaces originating in western Europe during the Renaissance. They were often used as business or court hands. Bastard gothic scripts were
Bastarda
Sample script for learning penmanship
which look more similar to printed scripts. These scripts were designed as part of a competition. The French ronde script (taught until the 20th century)
Teaching_script
System for writing in Spanish
the orthography used in the Spanish language. The alphabet uses the Latin script. The spelling is fairly phonemic, especially in comparison to more opaque
Spanish_orthography
Fourth letter of the Latin alphabet
Cyrillic letter De 𐌃: Old Italic D, the ancestor of modern Latin D ᛞ: Runic letter dagaz, which is possibly a descendant of Old Italic D ᚦ: Runic letter thurisaz
D
Ethnolinguistic group
The concept of Italic peoples is widely used in linguistics and historiography of ancient Italy. In a strict sense, commonly used in linguistics, it refers
Italic_peoples
Set of letters used to write a given language
script, believed to be an abjad. Its successor, Phoenician, is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin (via the Old Italic alphabet)
Alphabet
Particular size, weight and style of a typeface
called italic type or oblique type. These designs normally slant to the right in left-to-right scripts. Oblique styles are often called italic, but differ
Font
Gothic. Devens Script (1898) Touraine Oldstyle Italic (1898) Lower-case letters for Goudy's Camelot (1900) Abbott Oldstyle (1901) Engravers' Old English (1901)
Joseph_W._Phinney
designs are 'old-style' serif faces, they do still explore a wide range of aspects of the genre, with Deepdene offering a strikingly upright italic, Goudy Modern
List of typefaces designed by Frederic Goudy
List_of_typefaces_designed_by_Frederic_Goudy
Symbol representing the word "and" (&)
origin (figures 4–6). The modern italic type ampersand is a kind of "et" ligature that goes back to the cursive scripts developed during the Renaissance
Ampersand
issues when mixing languages using Latin script with secondary languages using other scripts. Most of the italic faces are not true italics; they are slanted
Open-source_Unicode_typefaces
Subset of characters in Unicode
or "inherited" script property. However, the individual scripts often have their own punctuation and diacritics, so that many scripts include not only
Script_(Unicode)
(1916), based on Goudy’s Goudy Old Style. Goudy Title (1918) Goudy Bold Italic + Goudy Catalog (1919) Goudy Catalog Italic (1922), credited to Benton, Charles
List of typefaces designed by Morris Fuller Benton
List_of_typefaces_designed_by_Morris_Fuller_Benton
One of the character encodings used to transmit information by telegraphy
area. 20-bit Unicode provided support for extinct languages such as Old Italic script and many rarely used Chinese characters. In 1931, the International
Telegraph_code
Typefaces that mimic 15th and 16th century Western European handwriting
to usage of international scripts such as Antiqua. Script typeface – Class of typefaces inspired by handwriting Bembo – Old-style serif typeface History
Antiqua
Mediaeval Old Style (see: 67 Old Style) Menhart 397: Menhart Roman/italic composition matrices: UA.378 = 10D-14 display matrices: Mercurius Bold Script 583:
Monotype_typefaces
Fifteenth letter of the Latin alphabet
represent the vowel /o/. The letter was adopted with the value in the Old Italic alphabets, including the early Latin alphabet. In Greek, a variation of
O
Language of the Saanich people of North America
March 3, 2025. Renee Lewis (2012-08-02). "Indigenous tap new app to save old languages". Al Jazeera English. Retrieved 2012-08-21. "FirstVoices Apps"
Saanich_dialect
Style of typeface
In Latin script typography, roman is one of the three main kinds of historical type, alongside blackletter and italic. Sometimes called normal or regular
Roman_type
Third letter of the Greek alphabet
L-shape (𐌋). Letters that arose from the Greek gamma include Etruscan (Old Italic) 𐌂, Roman C and G, Runic kaunan ᚲ, Gothic geuua 𐌲, the Coptic Ⲅ, and
Gamma
several Indian language scripts including that of Malayalam. Alphabetum contains fonts for: Aegean numerals Anatolian scripts (Lydian, Lycian, Carian
Alphabetum
Sans-serif typeface
and four style/weight combinations (Roman medium, Roman bold, italic medium, and italic bold), for a total of 56 fonts in the family. Each contained 238
Arial
Style of European handwriting
and Gaelic.[citation needed] Predominating before the dominance of Italic script, it arose out of the need for a hand more legible and universally recognizable
Secretary_hand
System of handwriting scripts
transitionary phase of Protogothic; the Gothic system of scripts diverged into a complex hierarchy of book scripts and cursive court hands in 12th century England
Gothic_script_(palaeography)
Ninth letter of the Latin alphabet
yodh as their letter iota (⟨Ι, ι⟩) to represent /i/, the same as in the Old Italic alphabet. In Latin (as in Modern Greek), it was also used to represent
I
Latin lingua (from Old Latin dengua) and English tongue (from Old English tunge). centumization (Celtic, Germanic, Greek, Italic, Tocharian) The palatovelar
Glossary of sound laws in the Indo-European languages
Glossary_of_sound_laws_in_the_Indo-European_languages
Twenty-second letter of the Greek alphabet
MATHEMATICAL ITALIC CAPITAL CHI U+1D712 𝜒 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL CHI U+1D732 𝜲 MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL CHI U+1D74C 𝝌 MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC SMALL
Chi_(letter)
Last letter of the Greek alphabet
ITALIC CAPITAL OMEGA U+1D714 𝜔 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL OMEGA U+1D734 𝜴 MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL OMEGA U+1D74E 𝝎 MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC
Omega
Serif typeface
only centuries old and worn almost beyond use, but it was contaminated with wrong-font letters (notably the letter 'a') and the italic did not even belong
Times_New_Roman
OLD ITALIC-SCRIPTS
OLD ITALIC-SCRIPTS
Girl/Female
Australian, Portuguese
From Italy
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Gold; Blond
Surname or Lastname
English
English : distinguishing name for the older of two bearers of the same personal name, from Middle English eld ‘old’ (from Old English eald).Swedish : ornamental name from Old Norse eldr ‘flame’, ‘fire’.
Girl/Female
Australian, Italian
From Italy
Male
English
Short form of English Oliver, probably OLI means "elf army."
Surname or Lastname
Jewish (Ashkenazic)
Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from modern German Gold, Yiddish gold ‘gold’. In North America it is often a reduced form of one of the many compound ornamental names of which Gold is the first element.English and German : from Old English, Old High German gold ‘gold’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in gold, i.e. a refiner, jeweler, or gilder, or as a nickname for someone who either had many gold possessions or bright yellow hair.English : from an Old English personal name Golda (or the feminine Golde), which persisted into the Middle Ages as a personal name. The name was in part a byname from gold ‘gold’, and in part a short form of the various compound names with this first element.
Female
Italian
 Feminine form of Italian Vitale, VITALIA means "of life; vital." Compare with another form of Vitalia.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Old.
Female
Hawaiian
Hawaiian name OLA means "life; well-being."
Girl/Female
British, English
Gold
Boy/Male
German
Old or wise.
Male
Russian
Variant spelling of Russian Vitaliy, VITALI means "of life; vital."
Male
Italian
Italian form of Roman Latin Italus, ITALO means "of Italy."
Surname or Lastname
English (Northumbria) and Scottish
English (Northumbria) and Scottish : habitational name from East Ord in Northumberland, named with Old English ord ‘point’. Compare Ort 3.English : from a Germanic personal name (see Ort 2).Scottish : habitational name from various minor places named with Gaelic ord ‘hammer’, used as a topographical term for a rounded hill.
Male
Russian
(Виталий) Russian form of Roman Latin Vitalis, VITALIY means "of life; vital."
Female
Hebrew
(טַלְיָה) Variant spelling of Hebrew Talya, TALIA means "dew." Compare with another form of Talia.
Male
Norwegian
Norwegian form of Old Norse Oddr, ODD means "point of a weapon."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English old, not necessarily implying old age, but rather used to distinguish an older from a younger bearer of the same personal name.North German form of Alt, like the English name a distinguishing name for the older of two bearers of a personal name.Americanized form of German Alt.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname from Middle English bold ‘courageous’, ‘daring’ (Old English b(e)ald, cognate with Old High German bald). In some cases it may derive from an Old English personal name (see Bald).English : topographic name for someone who lived or worked at the main house in a settlement, from Old English bold, the usual West Midland and northwestern form of Old English bÅðl, bÅtl ‘dwelling house’, ‘hall’.English : habitational name for someone from Bold in Lancashire, which is named with Old English bold ‘dwelling’, as in 2 above.German : from the Germanic personal name Baldo, a short form of the various compound names with the element bald ‘bold’, notably Baldwin in the north, and Reinbold in the south.Swedish : probably of German origin.
Female
Italian
From the Italian name for Italy, possibly derived from Latin vitulus, ITALIA means "calf."Â
OLD ITALIC-SCRIPTS
OLD ITALIC-SCRIPTS
Boy/Male
Muslim
Famous
Girl/Female
Indian
Well born
Female
Persian/Iranian
Variant spelling of Persian unisex Khurshid, KHORSHED means "sun."
Female
Czechoslovakian
, Jehovah's gift (or grace).
Boy/Male
American, British, Christian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindu, Indian, Irish, Jamaican, Latin, Romanian, Slovenia, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss, Tamil, Ukrainian
Victorious; Conqueror; Winner; Champion; One who Conquers; Victory
Female
English
English short form of Latin Diana, DIDI means "divine, heavenly."Â Compare with masculine Didi.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Fluency as in Singing for Music
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Loveable
Boy/Male
Hindu
Boy/Male
Danish, German, Norse, Norwegian, Scandinavian
Deserted
OLD ITALIC-SCRIPTS
OLD ITALIC-SCRIPTS
OLD ITALIC-SCRIPTS
OLD ITALIC-SCRIPTS
OLD ITALIC-SCRIPTS
superl.
Worn out; weakened or exhausted by use; past usefulness; as, old shoes; old clothes.
a.
Formed according to old or obsolete fashion or pattern; adhering to old customs or ideas; as, an old-fashioned dress, girl.
a.
Relating to Italy or to its people.
superl.
Formerly existing; ancient; not modern; preceding; original; as, an old law; an old custom; an old promise.
a.
Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500.
superl.
Long cultivated; as, an old farm; old land, as opposed to new land, that is, to land lately cleared.
n.
An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic, a., 2.); -- often in the plural; as, the Italics are the author's. Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic letters.
n.
An early Latin version of the Scriptures (the Old Testament was translated from the Septuagint, and was also called the Italic version).
a.
Like an old woman; anile.
superl.
Old-fashioned; wonted; customary; as of old; as, the good old times; hence, colloquially, gay; jolly.
n.
Old times; former days; antiquity.
pl.
of Italic
a.
Old.
v. i.
To age; to grow old.
v. t.
To make old or ancient.
superl.
Not new or fresh; not recently made or produced; having existed for a long time; as, old wine; an old friendship.
superl.
Not young; advanced far in years or life; having lived till toward the end of the ordinary term of living; as, an old man; an old age; an old horse; an old tree.
superl.
Long practiced; hence, skilled; experienced; cunning; as, an old offender; old in vice.
n.
Age; esp., old age.
superl.
Continued in life; advanced in the course of existence; having (a certain) length of existence; -- designating the age of a person or thing; as, an infant a few hours old; a cathedral centuries old.