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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...
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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...
- 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...
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suggest their totemic animal to be the calf (Lat vitulus,
Umbrian vitlo,
Oscan Víteliú).
Several ancient authors (Dionysius of Halicarn****us, Antiochus...
- comedies"), also
known as the
Oscan Games (Latin: ludi Osci, "
Oscan plays"), were
masked improvised farces in
Ancient Rome. The
Oscan athletic games were very...
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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...
- "mask" and
histrio "actor".
Latin also
included vocabulary borrowed from
Oscan,
another Italic language.
After the Fall of
Tarentum (272 BC), the Romans...
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inhabited from at
least the
beginning of the 1st
millennium BC by
several Oscan-speaking
Italic tribes: the Osci, the Opici, the Aurunci, the Ausones, the...
- bráthair *bʰréh₂tēr "brother" դուստր
dustr "daughter"
daughter ( ← OE dohtor) (
Oscan ****rei) θυγάτηρ thugátēr دختر
doxtar दुहितृ duhitṛ дочь doč' der, Dar- "daughter...
