Italianistics

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/ɪˌtæljəˈnɪstɪks/

noun

Italian studies.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounItalianistics (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehumanitiesItalian studies.

    [...] by the Department of Italianistics and the Department of Anglo-German and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Padua, [...]

    2004, Brücke, page 71
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    [...] Vittore Branca, the First Secretary, now Vice-President of the Fondazione Cini, an eminent representative of international Italianistics, and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for an organized research programme into the history of the Hungarian–Italian cultural relations.

    1983, Hungarian Book Review, page 23

    I am not thinking of textual linguistics which I have as yet only touched on and to which I have made a modest contribution concerning Italianistics but rather to the comparative sociolinguistics of languages by elaboration (Ausbaukomparatistik in German).

    1987, Italian Civilization and Non-Italian Scholars, page 187

    Francesco Cabras is currently Adjunct Professor of Italianistics at the Pedagogical University in Cracow. He graduated in Italianistics from the University of Padua with a dissertation on Jan Kochanowski’s Foricoenia and received his PhD in Polonistics from the University of Milan.

    2024, Andra Ceccherelli, editor, Dante and Polish Writers: From Romanticism to the Present

    Antonio Cacciari / held the chair of ancient Christian literature and New Testament philology and exegesis at the Department of Classical Philology and Italianistics at the University of Bologna until 2022.

    2025, Eberhard Bons, Anna Mambelli, Daniela Scialabba, editor, Joy Denied, Joy Rediscovered: From Classical Greek Literature to Byzantine Christianity, page XVIII

Origin

  1. EnglishItalian
  2. EnglishItalianist
  3. EnglishItalianistics

From Italianist + -ics. By surface analysis, Italian + -istics.

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Translations

French italianistique
  • italianistiqueTranslations
German Italianistik
  • ItalianistikTranslations
Italian italianistica
  • italianisticaTranslations
Polish italianistyka
  • italianistykaTranslations
Russian итальяни́стика
  • итальяни́стика (italʹjanístika)Translations

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Cite this entry
APA

Italianistics. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Italianistics

MLA

“Italianistics.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Italianistics. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Italianistics,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Italianistics.

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