italic

Short definition from Wiktionary

Adjective

1. 1
   Designed to resemble a handwriting style developed in Italy in the 16th century.
2. 2
   Having letters that slant or lean to the right; oblique.
3. 3
   Of or relating to the Italian peninsula.
4. 4
   Pertaining 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
5. 5
   Pertaining 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: Osco-Umbrian; an extinct branch of such language family, which excludes the Latino-Faliscan languages
6. 6
   Pertaining 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.

Noun

1. 1
   A typeface in which the letters slant to the right.
2. 2
   An oblique handwriting style, such as used by Italian calligraphers of the Renaissance.

Proper noun

1. 1
   The Italic family taken as a whole.