Italianate

comparative more Italianate · superlative most Italianate

1. Italian in style or character.

   "This was a residence designed for living on a grand scale, with gilt chandeliers dangling overhead, rich oil paintings adorning walls, and Italianate marble fireplaces in every room."

   2001, Death by Darjeeling, Laura Childs, page 15

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   Charlbury, between Oxford and Worcester, is one of the few surviving Italianate stations designed by Brunel. Built in 1853, it is characterised by the broad overhanging hipped roof, providing shelter at front and rear.

   2020 December 2, Anthony Lambert, “Reimagining Railway Stations”, in Rail, page 42, photo caption

2. specificallyPertaining to a style of Latin pronunciation imitating the modern Roman dialect of Italian, originally popularized outside of Italy by ultramontane Roman Catholics in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

   The Liber usualis of 1896 was eventually expanded to include pronunciation, and it resulted in the uniform adoption of an Italianate pronunciation of Latin throughout the Roman Catholic church.

   1996, A. G. Rigg, “Introduction: Latin”, in Timothy J. McGee, editor, Singing Early Music: The Pronunciation of European Languages in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, →ISBN, page 7

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   Work on how Latin would have sounded in music settings using the vernacular version of pronunciation is now under way and singers are beginning to adopt the appropriate sounds as far as these are known. The differences from Italianate Latin are often striking.

   1992, Alison Wray, “Authentic pronunciation for Early Music”, in John Paynter et al., editors, Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought, volume 2, →ISBN, page 1059

   W. W. Story, in his 1879 article “The Pronunciation of the Latin Language,” does not temper his thoughts on the emergence, then hegemony, of Italianate pronunciation of classical Latin: […]

   2022, David Friddle, Sing Romantic Music Romantically: Nineteenth-Century Choral Performance Practices, →ISBN, page 93

present singular third person Italianates · participle present Italianating · participle past Italianated · past Italianated

1. To Italianize.