italianate
/ˌɪtˈæljənˌeɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.24 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to a style of Latin pronunciation imitating the modern Roman dialect of Italian, originally popularized outside of Italy by ultramontane Roman Catholics in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
verb
To Italianize.
Example Sentences
- ""This was a residence designed for living on a grand scale, with gilt chandeliers dangling overhead, rich oil paintings adorning walls, and Italianate marble fireplaces in every room.""
- "Charlbury, between Oxford and Worcester, is one of the few surviving Italianate stations designed by Brunel. Built in 1853, it is characterised by the broad overhanging hipped roof, providing shelter at front and rear."
- "Work on how Latin would have sounded in music settings using the vernacular version of pronunciation is now under way and singers are beginning to adopt the appropriate sounds as far as these are known. The differences from Italianate Latin are often striking."
- "The Liber usualis of 1896 was eventually expanded to include pronunciation, and it resulted in the uniform adoption of an Italianate pronunciation of Latin throughout the Roman Catholic church."
- "W. W. Story, in his 1879 article “The Pronunciation of the Latin Language,” does not temper his thoughts on the emergence, then hegemony, of Italianate pronunciation of classical Latin: […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree English Italian Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English Italianate From Italian + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Inflected Forms
more Italianate (comparative)
most Italianate (superlative)
Italianates (present, singular)
Italianating (participle, present)
Italianated (participle, past)
Italianated (past)