Definitions for "Italic"
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.
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.
A slanted style of a font, generally used for emphasis. Italic differs from Oblique in that the transformation from the plain to the slanted form involves more than just skewing the letterforms. Generally the lower-case a changes to , the serifs on lower-case letters like i () change, and the font generally gains a freer look to it.
Keywords:  indo, dialects, chief, languages, latin
a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative
of or relating to the Italic languages; "ancient Italic dialects"
Keywords:  relating, people
Relating to Italy or to its people.