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.
It has evolved into Italian in the area where it was originally spoken, in the Lazio area (Latium in Latin) in Italy. Further back, Latin comes from the Indo-European proto-language conjectured to have been spoken somewhere between northern Iran and eastern Ukraine about 4â6,000 years ago.