It was called Italy even before the English language existed, so for which language is your question?The south of Italy was called the Great Greece by the Greeks. Does that help?
the Romans, they began to conquer another population ( further north ) than rome called itali and that land was called italia ( land of itali ) - it was an important population so Italy was named...
The origin of the term Italia, from Latin: Italia, is uncertain. According to one of the more common explanations, the term was borrowed through Greek from the Oscan Víteliú, meaning "land of young...