installati

Installati is the masculine plural past participle of the Italian verb installare, meaning to install. It functions as an adjective meaning that something has been installed or set up. The feminine form is installate, and the singular forms are installato (masculine) and installata (feminine).

Grammatical usage includes its behavior as a participle in compound tenses. When used with the auxiliary essere, installati agrees in gender and number with the subject (for example, i componenti sono installati). When used with avere, agreement generally occurs only if a direct object precedes the participle (for example, ho installato i driver vs. i driver installati). In phrases where it modifies a noun, installati functions as adjectives, as in “componenti installati” or “software installato.”

In computing and information technology, installati commonly refers to software, drivers, or packages that have been installed on a system. It appears in inventory lists, configuration reports, and user documentation to distinguish installed elements from those that are not yet present (non installati). For example, one might refer to “librerie installate” or “pacchetti installati” in a system audit.

As a nominal phrase, “gli installati” can occur in prose to denote the installed items or, less commonly, to personify those entities depending on context. More often, the noun form is more explicit (i pacchetti installati, i programmi installati).

See also: installazione, installare, software installato.