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Charybdis :: Charybdis (n.) A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.

Ra- :: Ra- () A prefix, from the Latin re and ad combined, coming to us through the French and Italian. See Re-, and Ad-..

Paul :: Paul (n.) An Italian silver coin. See Paolo.

Italianate :: Italianate (v. t.) To render Italian, or conformable to Italian customs; to Italianize..

Harlequin :: Harlequin (n.) A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy..

Pacinian :: Pacinian (a.) Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Filippo Pacini, an Italian physician of the 19th century..

Signora :: Signora (n.) Madam; Mrs; -- a title of address or respect among the Italians.

Italicism :: Italicism (n.) A phrase or idiom peculiar to the Italian language; to Italianism.

Ghetto :: Ghetto (n.) The Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city.

La :: La (n.) The tone A; -- so called among the French and Italians.

Valsalvian :: Valsalvian (a.) Of or pertaining to Valsalva, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century..

Pistole :: Pistole (n.) The name of certain gold coins of various values formerly coined in some countries of Europe. In Spain it was equivalent to a quarter doubloon, or about $3.90, and in Germany and Italy nearly the same. There was an old Italian pistole worth about $5.40..

Garibaldi :: Garibaldi (n.) A jacket worn by women; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the red shirt worn by the Italians patriot Garibaldi.

Ridotto :: Ridotto (n.) A favorite Italian public entertainment, consisting of music and dancing, -- held generally on fast eves..

Padrone :: Padrone (n.) A man who imports, and controls the earnings of, Italian laborers, street musicians, etc..

I :: I () I, the ninth letter of the English alphabet, takes its form from the Phoenician, through the Latin and the Greek. The Phoenician letter was probably of Egyptian origin. Its original value was nearly the same as that of the Italian I, or long e as in mete. Etymologically I is most closely related to e, y, j, g; as in dint, dent, beverage, L. bibere; E. kin, AS. cynn; E. thin, AS. /ynne; E. dominion, donjon, dungeon..

Italian :: Italian (n.) The language used in Italy, or by the Italians..

Socinianism :: Socinianism (n.) The tenets or doctrines of Faustus Socinus, an Italian theologian of the sixteenth century, who denied the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the personality of the Devil, the native and total depravity of man, the vicarious atonement, and the eternity of future punishment. His theory was, that Christ was a man divinely commissioned, who had no existence before he was conceived by the Virgin Mary; that human sin was the imitation of Adam's sin, and that human salvation was the imitat

Soldo :: Soldo (n.) A small Italian coin worth a sou or a cent; the twentieth part of a lira.

Macaroni :: Macaroni (n.) Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat flour, and used as an article of food; Italian or Genoese paste..

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