Italianate

[ adjective ih-tal-yuh-neyt, -nit; verb ih-tal-yuh-neyt ]

adjective

1. Italianized; conforming to the Italian type or style or to Italian customs, manners, etc.
2. Art. in the style of Renaissance or Baroque Italy.
3. Architecture. noting or pertaining to a mid-Victorian American style remotely based on Romanesque vernacular residential and castle architecture of the Italian countryside, but sometimes containing Renaissance and Baroque elements.

verb (used with object)

, I·tal·ian·at·ed, I·tal·ian·at·ing.

1. to Italianize.

Italianate

/ ɪˌtæljəˈnɛsk; ɪˈtæljənɪt; -ˌneɪt /

adjective

1. Italian in style or character

Other Words From

• I·talian·ately adverb
• I·talian·ation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Italianate¹

From the Italian word italianato, dating back to 1560–70. See Italian, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Her vocal style is Italianate and so, in this production, is her emotive acting.

From Los Angeles Times

Route 197 for a mere 13 miles until a slight right turn leads through town to a turn-of-the-century Italianate brick building.

From Seattle Times

Early in her stay she saw evidence of digging near her house, and after asking around, learned that an archaeological team had recently found part of a foundation of an Italianate villa, known as North View, that had been there more than a century and a half before.

From New York Times

Tall and willowy, Tetelman sang in a performance of “La Rondine” on Tuesday, his third show in the run, with a hyper-focused, brightly resonant voice that conveyed the sunny ping of an Italianate instrument.

From New York Times

Beginning with the Italianate geometries of Rio de Janeiro’s Passeio Público, the country’s first municipal garden, built over a pestilential lagoon between 1779 and ’83, Brazilian parks often mirrored European ones.

From New York Times