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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

carattere

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kaˈrat.te.re

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Font/fɒnt/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #3200 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Ho cambiato il carattere per rendere il testo più elegante."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A set of type of one particular face and size.

    "The designer chose a modern sans-serif font for the website headers."
  2. 2

    A digital file or data structure that specifies a set of glyphs of a specific typeface.

    "You can install the new font easily by double-clicking the file."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Middle English word 'fonte', meaning a baptismal font, stemming from Old French 'funte' and ultimately from Latin 'fons' (meaning a spring or fountain). In the context of typography, it originated from the Middle French 'fonte', meaning a casting, referring to a complete assortment of metal type of one size and style.

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