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Samnites
Samnites , people of ancient Italy. Their country was Samnium . The Samnites were Oscan-speaking and therefore should be included among the Sabelli. The Tabula Agnonensis, a bronze tablet that carries an inscription engraved in the full Oscan alphabet, is an important record of the language. The ... Read more
Italic languages
Italic languages subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages that may be divided into two groups. The first group consists of the ancient Italic languages and dialects that were once spoken in Italy. The most important of these were Latin, Faliscan, Oscan, and Umbrian; Latin was the only one... Read more
Sabines
Sabines , ancient people of central Italy, centered principally in the Sabine Hills, NE of Rome. Not much dependable information on them can be gathered. They were probably Oscan-speaking and therefore may be classed among the Sabelli. From the earliest days there was a Sabine element in Rome (the s... Read more
Quintus Ennius
Quintus Ennius , 239-169? BC, Latin poet, regarded by the Romans as the father of Latin poetry, b. Calabria. His birthplace was the meeting point of three civilizations—Oscan, Greek, and Latin—and Ennius learned to speak the languages of these cultures. He served in Sardinia under Cato t... Read more
Pompeii
Pompeii , ancient city of S Italy, a port near Naples and at the foot of Mt. Vesuvius. Possibly an old Oscan settlement, it was a Samnite city for centuries before it passed under Roman rule at the time of Lucius Cornelius Sulla (1st cent. BC). Pompeii was not only a flourishing port but a prosperou... Read more
The Indo-European Family of Languages
The Indo-European Family of Languages The Indo-European Family of Languages Subfamily Group Subgroup Languages and Principal Dialects  Asterisk indicates a dead language. Anatolian     Hie... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Oscan"

Oscan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Oscan , extinct language belonging to the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Italic languages .
Italic languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...important of these were Latin, Faliscan, Oscan, and Umbrian; Latin was the only one...about 1000 BC and that the speakers of Oscan and Umbrian probably arrived somewhat later...Rome, was superseded by Latin in time. Oscan was spoken in central and S Italy and NE...
Sabelli
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Sabelli , people of ancient Italy who spoke Oscan. They were a loose group and seemed to have had little or no political unity. Oscan-speaking tribes expanded over central Italy, and by the 5th cent. BC they seem to have taken ancient Campania...
Samnites
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...ancient Italy. Their country was Samnium . The Samnites were Oscan-speaking and therefore should be included among the Sabelli...bronze tablet that carries an inscription engraved in the full Oscan alphabet, is an important record of the language. The loose...
Roman Drama
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...with the secular entertainments of other Italian peoples—the phlyax comedies of Tarentum, for instance, and the Oscan fabula atellana , which were not unlike the comedy of mainland Greece. Although mime may well have been international from...
Quintus Ennius
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the history of Rome. Ennius was born at Rudiae in Calabria. He knew three languages or had, as he said, "three hearts": Oscan, his native tongue; Greek, in which he was educated, possibly at Tarentum; and Latin, which he learned as a centurion...
Atellan Fables
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...stage with stock characters (the foolish old man, the rogue, the clown), and seem to have been the earliest form of drama to flourish in ancient Rome. It was imported from Campania where Oscan, a language akin to Latin, was spoken.
Sabines
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...principally in the Sabine Hills, NE of Rome. Not much dependable information on them can be gathered. They were probably Oscan-speaking and therefore may be classed among the Sabelli. From the earliest days there was a Sabine element in Rome (the...
The Indo-European Family of Languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Iranian Kurdish, Pahlavi (Middle Persian) , Parthian , Persian (Farsi), Tajiki Italic (Non-Romance) Faliscan , Latin , Oscan , Umbrian Romance or Romanic Eastern Romance Italian , Rhaeto-Romanic , Romanian , Sardinian Western Romance Catalan , French...
Carl Darling Buck
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Carl Darling Buck 1866-1955, American philologist, b. Orlando, Maine. Buck taught at the Univ. of Chicago from 1892 to 1933. His Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian (1904) is still authoritative.

Dictionary entries related to "Oscan"

Oscan
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Oscan an extinct Italic language of southern Italy, related to Umbrian and surviving in inscriptions mainly of the 4th to 1st centuries bc .
ubication
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology ...ubicāre (cf. Sp. ubicarse be in a determinate place), f. L. ubī́ where = Umbrian pufe , Oscan puf :- * quubī (cf. L. alicubī elsewhere, necubī nowhere), f. base of quī WHO...
Italic
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English I·tal·ic / iˈtalik; īˈtal- / • adj. relating to or denoting the branch of Indo-European languages that includes Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, and the Romance languages. • n. the Italic group of languages.
Sabine
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...x2C8;sāˌbīn; -ˌbin / • adj. of, relating to, or denoting an ancient Oscan-speaking people of the central Apennines in Italy, northeast of Rome, who feature in early Roman legends and were incorporated...
carnal
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology carnal XV. — ChrL. carnālis , f. carō , carn- flesh, rel. to Umbrian karu , Oscan carneis (g.) part, Gr. keírein cut; see -AL 1 . So carnality XIV.
pre-
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology ...x113;- , i.e. the adv.-prep. præ (of place, rank, time) before, in front, in advance, OL. prai = Oscan prai , prae- , Umbrian pre , cogn. with (O)Ir. ar before, at, in OSl. pri near, and rel. to the groups of PER , pr...
so
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology ...sō (Du. zo ), OHG. sō , suo (G. so ), ON. svá . Goth. swa (also swē ), rel. to OL. suad so, OScan svai , svae if, swā and, Gr. hōs (:- * sFōs ) as.
Samnite
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Samnite a member of an Oscan-speaking people of southern Italy in ancient times, who spent long periods at war with republican Rome in the 4th to 1st centuries bc .

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