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Grey comes from the Middle English grai or grei, from the Old English grǣġ, and is related to the Dutch grauw and German grau. [8] There are no certain cognates outside Germanic languages; terms such as Spanish gris and Italian grigio are considered Germanic loanwords from Medieval Latin griseus. [9]
The Italian Greyhound or Italian Sighthound (Italian: Piccolo levriero Italiano) is an Italian breed of small sighthound. [2] It was bred to hunt hare and rabbit , but is kept mostly as a companion dog .
Peaked cap used. The first uniforms of the Italian Air Force included a hand-tailored dress tunic that was made of a medium blue-grey colored wool.The uniform consisted of a buttoned jacket and trousers, with a double buckled belt holding the jacket together to make the appearance of the serviceman more neat and trimmed down.
The Italian wolf (Canis lupus italicus [3] [4] or Canis lupus lupus [5]), also known as the Apennine wolf, [6] [7] is a subspecies of the grey wolf native to the Italian Peninsula. It inhabits the Apennine Mountains and the Western Alps , though it is undergoing expansion towards the north and east.
The Italian Resistance (Italian: ... Its territory (marked in green) was the theatre of the Italian resistance. In grey are the territories of the Kingdom of Italy.
The Italian wolf features prominently in Latin and Italian cultures, such as in the legend of the founding of Rome. [8] It is unofficially considered the national animal of Italy. [9] [10] The Italian wolf (Canis lupus italicus or Canis lupus lupus), also known as the Apennine wolf, is a subspecies of grey wolf native to the Italian Peninsula.
Gray directed The Italian Job, a 2003 action-thriller starring Charlize Theron and Mark Wahlberg. Gray garnered the Best Director award at the 2004 Black American Film Festival for his work on the film, which surpassed the $100 million mark in the domestic box office. His next film was A Man Apart, an action thriller starring Vin Diesel.
The Sicilian wolf (Sicilian: lupu sicilianu; Canis lupus cristaldii) is an extinct subspecies of the gray wolf that was endemic to Sicily. It was smaller than the mainland Italian wolf and had paler fur. The subspecies reportedly went extinct due to human persecution in the 1920s, though there were several possible sightings up to the 1970s.