Italianistn.adj.
rare.
A. n.
One who Italianizes.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > liking for or sympathy with other nations > [noun] > Italy > person
Italianist1855
Italophil1906
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! viii The bargain is hardly fair between such a gay Italianist and us country swains.
B. adj.
Of, pertaining to, or characterized by Italianism.
ΚΠ
1875 K. O'Clery Hist. Ital. Revol. v. 187 The repeated failures of the leaders of the party of action had now somewhat discouraged their friends and lessened their influence in Italy, and it was some time before they recovered their control over the Italianist movement.
1892 K. O'Clery Making of Italy Pref. p. vi For the details of Custozza and Lissa I have throughout relied upon Italianist sources of information.
Draft additions 1993
One who specializes in Italian or Italian studies.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > Italian > one who speaks or studies Italian
Italian1598
Italianist1961
1961 in N. Webster
1972 Times 16 Nov. 11/1 Raleigh Trevelyan is one of our most informed Italianists.
1982 Univ. Coll. London Bull. June 9/2 The largest concentration of Italianists might well attract the fewest students.
1989 Washington Post 30 Apr. (Book World) 13/2 When Sayers died with 13 cantos of the Paradiso left untranslated, it was Italianist Barbara Reynolds who brought Dante to his journey's end.
1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 15 Mar. 44/2 Are all Italianists aware that it is the Joint Council's view that..this language should be offered by one board only from 1994?
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