Definition of pedal for English Language Learners. : 1  a flat piece of metal, rubber, etc., that you push with your foot to make a machine move, work, or stop. : 2  a lever on a piano, organ, etc., that you push with your foot to make or change a sound.
In Rome, the capital of Italy, they speak Italian. actually Rome was founded in the 700 B.C.'s so Italian wasn't a language Romans spoke all Latin.
Also note that Latin remained as the lingua franca of much of Europe until recent times, but the language that Latin would eventually evolve from was originally spoken by people in central Italy, very much near what they would then create as the city of Rome.ore specifically, in a region the Romans called Latium (hence the name Latin), it still exists as one of the twenty administrative divisons of Italy. The name survived and evolved to Lazio, which is what it is called today.