(Printing)of the sloping kind of typeface used especially for emphasis or distinction and in foreign words (印刷)(用于表示强调、区别或外来词)斜体的 ■(of handwriting) modelled on 16th-century Italian handwriting, typically cursive and sloping and with elliptical or pointed letters (书写)意大利古书写体的
noun
(亦作italics)[mass noun]an italic typeface or letter 斜体;斜体字 the key words are in italics. 关键词使用斜体。
语源
late Middle English (in the general sense Italian): via Latin from Greek Italikos, from Italia 'Italy'. Senses relating to writing date from the early 17th cent