ITALIC LANGUAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Italic language mean? 

• ITALIC LANGUAGE (noun)
  The noun ITALIC LANGUAGE has 1 sense:

1. a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative

  Familiarity information: ITALIC LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ITALIC LANGUAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Italic; Italic language

Hypernyms ("Italic language" is a kind of...):

Indo-European; Indo-European language; Indo-Hittite (the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Italic language"):

Osco-Umbrian (a group of dead languages of ancient Italy; they were displace by Latin)

Latin (any dialect of the language of ancient Rome)