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# italian

«italian» in Mova's school dictionary: **from or about Italy, a country in southern Europe** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (Italian — with a capital I); noun (an Italian, Italians; Italian — the language)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Italian means from or about Italy, a country in southern Europe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/italian/#m1)

2) An Italian is a person from Italy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/italian/#m2)

3) Italian is the language spoken in Italy and parts of Switzerland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/italian/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life Italian food like pizza, pasta and gelato is popular everywhere; many towns in the US, Canada and Australia have Italian communities. In geography lessons Italy is shaped like a boot. In music, many words like «piano», «forte» and «tempo» are Italian. Phrases: «Italian food», «speak Italian», «an Italian restaurant», «Italian-American».

### examples

- We had dinner at an Italian restaurant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/italian/#x1)
- Pizza is a famous Italian food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/italian/#x2)
- My friend's grandma is Italian. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/italian/#x3)
- She is learning to speak Italian. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/italian/#x4)
- «Ciao» means hello in Italian. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/italian/#x5)
- Many music words come from Italian. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/italian/#x6)
- Rome is the capital of Italy, and the people there are Italians. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/italian/#x7)
- The Italian team won the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/italian/#x8)
- It occurs in Swift and in modern Italian folk-lore. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/italian/#x9)

### note

Always a capital I: Italian, Italy. Stress: i-TAL-ian (not EYE-talian, which can sound rude). Plural: Italians. «Italic» writing (slanted letters) is named after Italy.

### In the corpora

- [Italian artists worked out the rules of perspective about 600 years ago.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/12-drawing-lines-shapes-and-drawing-what-you-really-see/12/)
- [Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Romanian all grew out of Latin, the language of the Roman Empire.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/12/)
- [Columbus, an Italian sailing for Castile, reached the Caribbean in 1492 while trying to reach Asia by sailing west.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires/10/)
- [Rome left us Latin, the language behind French, Spanish, Italian and about half of English words.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/6/)
- [The Americas are named after the Italian Amerigo Vespucci, who realised this was a New World and not Asia.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «italian» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/italian/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.