Definition of Oscan. Meaning of Oscan. Synonyms of Oscan

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Definition of Oscan

Oscan
Oscan Os"can, a. Of or pertaining to the Osci, a primitive people of Campania, a province of ancient Italy. -- n. The language of the Osci.

Meaning of Oscan from wikipedia

- Oscan is an extinct Indo-European language of southern Italy. The language is in the Osco-Umbrian or Sabellic branch of the Italic languages. Oscan is...
- called Oscans, Opici, Opsci, Obsci, Opicans) were an Italic people of Campania and Latium adiectum before and during Roman times. They spoke the Oscan language...
- prin****lly of Oscan and Umbrian, but there are also some Osco-Umbrian loanwords in Latin. Besides the two major branches of Oscan and Umbrian (and...
- region of Umbria. Within the Italic languages it is closely related to the Oscan group and is therefore ****ociated with it in the group of Osco-Umbrian languages...
- from Latin and Oscan. It is disputed whether some of the praenomina used by the Romans themselves were of distinctly Etruscan or Oscan origin. However...
- The Oscan Tablet (Latin Tabula Osca) or Agnone Tablet is a bronze inscription written in the Oscan alphabet that dates to the 3rd century BC. It was found...
- including Oscan, Umbrian, and South Picene, and other Indo-European branches such as Venetic) originally used the alphabet. Faliscan, Oscan, Umbrian,...
- The name Apulia itself derives from Iapygia after p****ing from Gr**** to Oscan to Latin and undergoing subsequent morphological shifts. Messapic was a...
- ancient Italic languages are Faliscan (the closest to Latin), Umbrian and Oscan (or Osco-Umbrian), and South Picene. Other Indo-European languages once...
- endonyms and of the po****tion was the Oscan language. However, not all the Samnites spoke Oscan, and not all the Oscan-speakers lived in Samnium. Ancient...