italian
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 →
2) An Italian is a person from Italy. tree →
3) Italian is the language spoken in Italy and parts of Switzerland. tree →
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 →
- Pizza is a famous Italian food. tree →
- My friend's grandma is Italian. tree →
- She is learning to speak Italian. tree →
- «Ciao» means hello in Italian. tree →
- Many music words come from Italian. tree →
- Rome is the capital of Italy, and the people there are Italians. tree →
- The Italian team won the match. tree →
- It occurs in Swift and in modern Italian folk-lore. tree →
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.
- Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Romanian all grew out of Latin, the language of the Roman Empire.
- Columbus, an Italian sailing for Castile, reached the Caribbean in 1492 while trying to reach Asia by sailing west.
- Rome left us Latin, the language behind French, Spanish, Italian and about half of English words.
- The Americas are named after the Italian Amerigo Vespucci, who realised this was a New World and not Asia.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «italian» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.