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italianité

French, noun/i.ta.lja.ni.te/

italianité is spelled I-T-A-L-I-A-N-I-T-É (10 letters) and appears about once in every 51 million words in written French, the 226,484th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Italianité is a French feminine noun meaning “Italianness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sentiment de personnes d’origine italienne se trouvant en d’autres lieux qu'en Italie et lié à la volonté de…”.

What does italianité mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineItalianness

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Sentiment de personnes d’origine italienne se trouvant en d’autres lieux qu'en Italie et lié à la volonté de revendiquer leur identité et leur appartenance à leur pays d’origine.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of italianité

  • italianités plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce italianité?

  • /i.ta.lja.ni.te/
  • \i.ta.lja.ni.te\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is italianité in French?

italianité appears about once in every 51 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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