[ital.ic] adj (1612) 1 a: of or relating to a type style with characters that slant upward to the right (as in "these words are italic")--compare roman b: of or relating to a style of slanted cursive handwriting developed in the 15th and 16th centuries
2. cap: of or relating to ancient Italy, its peoples, or their Indo-European languages
[2]italic n (1676) 1: an italic character or type
2. cap: a branch of the Indo-European language family that includes Latin, Oscan, and Umbrian