adj

• (typography, of a typeface or font) Designed to resemble a handwriting style developed in Italy in the 16th century.
• (typography, of a typeface or font) Having letters that slant or lean to the right; oblique.
  "The text was impossible to read: every other word was underlined or in a bold or italic font."

noun

• (typography) A typeface in which the letters slant to the right.
  "Names of vessels, as the Kearsarge or the Alabama, are frequently put in italic."

adj

• (Indo-European studies) 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
• (Indo-European studies) 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
  "The ancient Italic languages that are now extinct include Oscan, Umbrian, and South Picene."
• (historical) 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.
  "There were several Italic alphabets, one being the Etruscan alphabet."