<i>
Text in an alternate voice or mood: taxonomy, ship names, foreign phrases, technical terms.
Baseline: Widely available · Inline text semantics
When to use it
Where convention italicizes without stress: <i lang='fr'>déjà vu</i> — and add lang for foreign phrases.
When not to
If the meaning changes when read with stress, that's em, not i.
Key attributes
lang- language of a foreign phrase
Example
The French call it un florilège.
<p>The French call it <i lang='fr'>un florilège</i>.</p>