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ITALIC LANGUAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative
Synonyms:
Italic; Italic language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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)