italo

See also: Italo, ítalo, Ítalo, italo-, Italo-, and ítalo-

Esperanto

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [iˈtalo]
  • Rhymes: -alo
  • Hyphenation: i‧ta‧lo

Noun

italo (accusative singular italon, plural italoj, accusative plural italojn)

  1. an Italian (person from Italy)

Hypernyms

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ītalus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈi.ta.lo/
  • Rhymes: -italo
  • Hyphenation: ì‧ta‧lo

Adjective

italo (feminine itala, masculine plural itali, feminine plural itale)

  1. (literary, poetic) Italian, Italic
    Synonyms: italiano, italico
    • 1807, Ugo Foscolo, Dei Sepolcri, Molini, Landi e comp., published 1809, page 15:
      in un tempio accolte ¶ serbi l'itale glorie
      gathered in a temple you keep the Italian glories
    • 1835, Giacomo Leopardi with Alessandro Donati, “II. Sul monumento di Dante [About Dante's monument]”, in Canti, Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, page 18, lines 3–6:
      [] non fien da' lacci sciolte ¶ dell'antico sopor l'itale menti ¶ s'ai patrii esempi della prisca etade ¶ questa terra fatal non si rivolga.
      [] they may not be freed from the snares of their age-old drowsiness, the Italian minds, if to the country's examples of the ancient age this great land will not return.
    • 1898, Giosuè Carducci, Rime e ritmi [Rhymes and rhythms], collected in Poesie, Nicola Zanichelli, published 1906, page 1012:
      Itala gente da le molte vite, ¶ dove che albeggi la tua notte e un’ombra ¶ vagoli spersa de’ vecchi anni, vedi ¶ ivi il poeta.
      Italian people with many lives, wherever your night dawns and a shadow of old years wanders around lost, there you see the poet.

Noun

italo m (plural itali)

  1. (rare) an Italian man
    • 1799, Vittorio Alfieri, “Conclusione [Conclusion]”, in Misogallo [The French-Hater], London, page 179, lines 1–3:
      Giorno verrà, tornerà il giorno, in cui ¶ Redivivi omai gl'Itali, staranno ¶ in campo audaci
      The day will come, the day will return, when the Italians living yet again, will be on the field, bold
    • 1835, Giacomo Leopardi with Alessandro Donati, “III. Ad Angelo Mai [To Angelo Mai]”, in Canti, Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, page 15, lines 3–6:
      Italo ardito, a che giammai non posi ¶ di svegliar dalle tombe ¶ i nostri padri?
      Ardent Italian, do you never tire of raising our ancestors from the tomb?

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Latin

Noun

italō

  1. dative/ablative singular of italus
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