Is Italian a Germanic language

Italian is not a Germanic language, but an Italic language. The Italic sub-branch of Indo-European languages include all Romantic languages such as French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian, which were derived from the ancient Italic language of Latin.

Germanic languages are also a sub-branch of the Indo-European language family and include languages such as English, German, Swedish and Dutch.

Despite Italian being an Italic/Romance language, there are some Words of German origin such as fresco, brodo and sapone.