Italo- /ɪˈtæləʊ-/
combining form
indicating Italy or Italian
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Italophobia
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Italo-German
Italo-a combining form of Italian, as in Italo-Australian.
Ita·lo-
\\\\i-ˈta-lō also ˈi-tə-lō\\\\ combining form
1. Italian
Italophile
2. Italian and
Italo-Austrian
\\\\i-ˈta-lō also ˈi-tə-lō\\\\ combining form
1. Italian
Italophile
2. Italian and
Italo-Austrian
Italo-
combining form
- Italian; Italian and ...表示“意大利的; 意大利人的; 意大利和…的”：
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Italophile
Italo-Grecian.
- ■ relating to Italy表示“与意大利有关的”。
1783 H. Swinburne Trav. Two Sicilies I. 353Sent to lay the first stone of this Italo-Græco-Corsinian seminary.
1841 W. Spalding Italy &It. Isl. I. 325The second period, which may be called the Italo-Grecian, continued till about the extinction of the Antonines.
1841–4 Emerson Ess. Ser. i. i. (1876) 25The..Italomania of Boston Bay.
1877 W. Jones Finger-ring 458A splendid specimen of a large gold ring of the best Italo-Greek work.
1877 J. Rhys Lect. WelshPhilol. i. 5Some subdivide the Southern division into an Italo-Celtic and a Hellenic group, while others prefer to suppose a Celtic and a Greco-Italic group.
1883 C. C. Perkins Ital. Sculpt. Introd. 12Ornaments and animals in the same Italo-Byzantine style.
1888 J. Wright tr. Brugmann'sElem. Compar. Gram. Indo-Gmc.Lang. I. 3The Italo-Keltic hypothesis has perhaps the best prospect of attaining a greater degree of probability in the future.
1906 Daily Chron. 28 Mar. 5/4The appointment of the Italophile reactionary Miushkovitch Ministry.
1920 G. E. Buckle Life Disraeli V. iii. 130Protestant and Italophil England rejoiced.
1921 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 494Some Italophobe Germans.
1922 Ibid. Sept. 302The official state of hostility between the Vatican and Italy and the periodical protests against it..maintain in the Catholic masses a feeling of Italophobia.
1927 Scots Observer 26 Mar. 12/5 Italy found it easier to buy Ahmed Zogu, turn him into an Italophil.
1932 W. L. Graff Lang. 375Italo-Celtic was probably once a common group of closely related dialects.
1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 62Some scholars believe that Italic and Celtic are connected.., so as to form an Italo-Celtic sub-group within the Indo-European family.
1958 N. Gordimer World of Strangers 20She..was a passionate Italophile, scattering her speech with cara mia's.
1966 E. P. Hamp in Birnbaum & Puhvel Anc. Indo-EuropeanDial. 116Germanic and..Italo-Keltic have -yo/ī̆, almost leveled out for both verb types.
1967 C. Seton-Watson Italy from Liberalism to Fascism x. 378The Italophil Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Gueshov, offered an alliance.
1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Oct. 1151/1Such an experienced Italophile.
ORIGIN: from Ital(ian -o-
Italo-
Prefix
- Italian
- Italophile, Italo-Austrian.