Italy
pronunciation
How to pronounce Italy in British English:
UK ['ɪtəlɪ]
How to pronounce Italy in American English:
US ['ɪtəlɪ]
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- Noun:
- a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD
Word Origin
- Italy
- from Latin Italia, from Greek Italia, perhaps from an alteration of Oscan Viteliu "Italy," but originally only the southwestern point of the peninsula, traditionally from Vitali, name of a tribe that settled in Calabria, whose name is perhaps somehow connected with Latin vitulus "calf," or perhaps the country name is directly from vitulus as "land of cattle," or it might be from an Illyrian word, or an ancient or legendary ruler Italus.
Example
- 1. He knows the south of italy well .
- 2. Sticking to italy can work .
- 3. Italy is not little ireland .
- 4. Britain and italy should stop temporizing .
- 5. France and italy are more constrained .