Italianist

[ ih-tal-yuh-nist ]

noun

1. a person who specializes in the study of Italy, the Italian people, or the Italian language.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Italianist¹

First recorded in 1850–55; Italian + -ist

Example Sentences

At Martinšćica, he says, there is not a single Italianist; the entire village is Yugoslav.

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In this place the Italianist party sent to us an ex-publican who had now joined the police, a small trader and a municipal clerk who had recently been imported from Zadar.

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In the year 1913 the deputy for Rieka died and Dr. Vio was a candidate, his opponent being one of the Italianist party, Professor Zanella.

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That is what she says of a people which through centuries of persecution and neglect have preserved their language, their traditions, their hopes; a people which, more than forty years ago, won their great victory against the Habsburg régime of Italian and Italianist officials, so that with one exception every mayor in Dalmatia and all the Imperial deputies and hundreds of societies of all kinds, such as 375 rural savings-banks, were exclusively Yugoslav.

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Italianist—that is, if we are content to accept the Austrian statistics?

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