Italic vs. Roman
Italicadjective
Designed to resemble a handwriting style developed in Italy in the 16th century.
Italicadjective
Having letters that slant or lean to the right; oblique.
Italicnoun
(typography) A typeface in which the letters slant to the right.
Italicnoun
An oblique handwriting style, such as used by Italian calligraphers of the Renaissance.
Italicadjective
Relating to Italy or to its people.
Italicadjective
Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; - so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500.
Italicnoun
An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic, a., 2.); - often in the plural; as, the Italics are the author's. Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic letters.
Italicnoun
a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right
Italicnoun
a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative
Italicnoun
a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right
Italicadjective
characterized by slanting characters;
Italicadjective
of or relating to the Italic languages;
Italicadjective
relating to or denoting the branch of Indo-European languages that includes Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, and the Romance languages.
Italicnoun
the Italic group of languages.
Romanadjective
upright, as opposed to italic
Romanadjective
of or related to the Latin alphabet
Romannoun
(typography) One of the main three types used for the Latin alphabet (the others being italics and blackletter), in which the ascenders are mostly straight.
Romanadjective
Of or pertaining to Rome, or the Roman people; like or characteristic of Rome, the Roman people, or things done by Romans; as, Roman fortitude; a Roman aqueduct; Roman art.
Romanadjective
Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic religion; professing that religion.
Romanadjective
Upright; erect; - said of the letters or kind of type ordinarily used, as distinguished from Italic characters.
Romannoun
A native, or permanent resident, of Rome; a citizen of Rome, or one upon whom certain rights and privileges of a Roman citizen were conferred.
Romannoun
Roman type, letters, or print, collectively; - in distinction from Italics.
Romannoun
a resident of modern Rome
Romannoun
an inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire
Romannoun
a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions
Romanadjective
relating to or characteristic of people of Rome;
Romanadjective
of or relating to or characteristic of Rome (especially ancient Rome);
Romanadjective
characteristic of the modern type that most directly represents the type used in ancient Roman inscriptions
Romanadjective
of or relating to or supporting Romanism;
