Definition of Osco-Umbrian

1. Noun. A group of dead languages of ancient Italy; they were displace by Latin.

Generic synonyms: Italic, Italic Language
Specialized synonyms: Umbrian, Oscan, Sabellian

Lexicographical Neighbors of Osco-Umbrian

Oscans
Oscar
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Oscar Hammerstein
Oscar Hammerstein II
Oscar Palmer Robertson
Oscar Robertson
Oscar Wilde
Oscar bait
Oscar the Grouch
Oscars
Osci
Oscillatoria princeps
Oscillatoriaceae
Oscines
Osco-Umbrian (current term)
Osgood
Osh
Oshikwanyama
Oshindonga
Oshiwambo
Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
Osip Mandelstam
Osirian
Osiris
Osler
Osler's disease
Osler's sign
Osler-Vaquez disease
Osler node

Literary usage of Osco-Umbrian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"Italic ? became closer in Osco-Umbrian ; in the ... An original short i in Osco-Umbrian became identical in quality, though not in quantity, with the vowel ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"-no- we have in Osco-Umbrian nn—which the Umbrian poet Plautus reproduces ... Italic * became closer in Osco-Umbrian; in the Oscan alphabet it is denoted by ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The Latin supplies the French, the Osco-Umbrian the Italian form. As to the other 1 Cf. G. Gröber, Archiv fur lai. Lexicographie, i. 35 ff. instance. ..."

4. Word Formation in the Roman Sermo Plebeius: An Historical Study of the by Frederic Taber Cooper (1895)
"It is interesting to notice that this suffix, like many others prevalent in the sermo rusticus, occurred also in the Osco-Umbrian dialects ;» compare Plin. ..."

5. Prolegomena to the History of Italico-Romanic Rhythm by Thomas Fitz-Hugh (1908)
"... which we shall find indigenous to both the Latin-Faliscan and Osco-Umbrian nationality; cf. Buechner Arbeit und Rhythmus, p. 363. ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... collected (i) the points which separate all the Italic languages from their nearest congeners, and (2) those which separate Osco-Umbrian from Latin. ..."

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