Italic
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A typeface in which the letters slant to the right. An oblique handwriting style, such as used by Italian calligraphers of the Renaissance.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Designed to resemble a handwriting style developed in Italy in the 16th century. Having letters that slant or lean to the right; oblique.
Italic
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: of, or relating to the Italian peninsulaPertaining to a subfamily of the Centum branch of the Indo-European language family, that includes Latin and other languages (as Oscan, Umbrian) spoken by the peoples of ancient Italy and also the Romance languages (Italian, French, Spanish, etc.); the group of ancient languages of this branch as contrasted with the modern Romance languages; Osco-UmbrianPertaining to various peoples that lived in Italy before the establishment of the Roman empire, or to any of several alphabet systems used by those peoples for writing their languages.
Part of speech: proper noun
Definition: An Italic language