NAME

       italian - a list of italian words

DESCRIPTION

       /usr/share/dict/italian  is  an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one
       per line.

AUTHOR

       This word list has been collected from completely free (GPL'd) sources and  is  maintained
       by Davide G. M. Salvetti <salve@debian.org>.

FILES

       /etc/dictionary This is a link to a /usr/share/dict/<language> file.

       /usr/share/dict/words   This   is  linked  to  /etc/dictionary,  it  exists  for  software
       compatibility.

       The directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages, with name of  the
       language  in  English,  e.g.,  /usr/share/dict/french  and  /usr/share/dict/danish contain
       respectively lists of French and Danish words if they exist.  Such lists should  be  coded
       using the ISO 8859 character set encoding.

SEE ALSO

       ispell(1), look(1).

History

       The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of sources.