What does italiano in Italian mean?

What is the meaning of the word italiano in Italian? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use italiano in Italian.

The word italiano in Italian means Italian, Italian, Italian, real Italian, proper Italian, improve your Italian, italian hound, Italian government, Italian state, an atypical Italian, not your usual Italian. To learn more, please see the details below.

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Meaning of the word italiano

Italian

aggettivo (dell'Italia) (from Italy)

(adjective: Describes a noun or pronoun--for example, "a tall girl," "an interesting book," "a big house.")
Sono scarpe italiane, mi sono costate una fortuna.
They are Italian shoes, they cost me a fortune.

Italian

(persona dell'Italia) (person from Italy)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Gli italiani sono persone simpatiche.
Italians are pleasant people.

Italian

sostantivo maschile (lingua) (language)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Audrey vive in Italia da quasi un anno e non parla ancora una parola di italiano.
Audrey has lived in Italy for almost a year and still does not speak a word of Italian.

real Italian, proper Italian

(language)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

improve your Italian

(verbal expression: Phrase with special meaning functioning as verb--for example, "put their heads together," "come to an end.")

italian hound

Italian government, Italian state

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

an atypical Italian, not your usual Italian

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

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Italian (italiano) is a Romance language and is spoken by about 70 million people, most of whom live in Italy. Italian uses the Latin alphabet. The letters J, K, W, X and Y do not exist in the standard Italian alphabet, but they still appear in loanwords from Italian. Italian is the second most widely spoken in the European Union with 67 million speakers (15% of the EU population) and it is spoken as a second language by 13.4 million EU citizens (3%). Italian is the principal working language of the Holy See, serving as the lingua franca in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. An important event that helped to the spread of Italian was Napoleon's conquest and occupation of Italy in the early 19th century. This conquest spurred the unification of Italy several decades later and pushed the language of the Italian language. Italian became a language used not only among secretaries, aristocrats and the Italian courts, but also by the bourgeoisie.