italian
n. C / Un. a person from Italy or the language spoken there. You also use it to describe things like food or culture that come from Italy.
n. a native or inhabitant of Italy, or the Romance language spoken primarily in Italy and parts of Switzerland. Refers to the people or the linguistic system itself.
She is an Italian who moved to London last year.
The restaurant is owned by an Italian who insists on importing all the cheese directly from his hometown in Tuscany.
While many people learn the language for travel, studying Italian provides a deeper window into the Renaissance texts and operatic traditions that shaped much of Western European culture.
From Middle English Italian, from Medieval Latin Italiānus, from Latin Italia (“Italy”).
Capitalised in all uses. As a language, it is uncountable; when referring to people, it is countable.
i like the italianI like ItalianLanguages are proper nouns and must be capitalised; they also do not take an article when referring to the language in general.