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Definition of Oscan
1. Noun. An Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania.
2. Noun. An extinct Italic language of ancient southern Italy.
Definition of Oscan
1. a. Of or pertaining to the Osci, a primitive people of Campania, a province of ancient Italy.
Definition of Oscan
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the Oscan language or Oscan people, or their writing system. ¹
2. Noun. A member of an ancient group of Italic-speaking peoples of Campania (the Osci). ¹
3. Proper noun. The language of the Oscan people. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oscan
Literary usage of Oscan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Varronianus: A Critical and Historical Introduction to the Ethnography of by John William Donaldson (1860)
"I. The remains of the oscan language must be considered as Sabellian also. § i.
... THE oscan language is more interesting even than the Um- brian, ..."
2. A Short Manual of Comparative Philology for Classical Students by Peter Giles (1901)
"same stock as Latin are oscan and Umbrian. oscan in the widest sense of the term was
... The most important of the oscan inscriptions are : (1) The Tabula ..."
3. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 93 by Harvard University (1897)
"In Latin they nearly all have the ending -ius, which in oscan is written -is.
... Thus we have, in the case of oscan names in Latin, seemingly the same name ..."
4. Verner's Law in Italy: An Essay in the History of the Indo-European Sibilants by Robert Seymour Conway (1887)
"S between vowels in oscan. 28. We have oscan inscriptions from ... The direct
evidence in oscan as to the influence of accent is confined to the ..."
5. The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D. D.: Late Head-master of by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1910)
"Once more, is anything doing about deciphering the Etruscan or oscan languages,
and what authority is there for making the oscan and Sabellian tribes ..."
6. A History of Roman Classical Literature by Robert William Browne (1853)
"THE oscan LANGUAGE. The remains which have come down to us of this language
belong, in fact, to a composite idiom made up of the Sabine and oscan. ..."
7. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1840)
"The oscan language was the parent of the dialects of the native tribes from the
Tiber to ... 20) mentions the oscan as being the language of the Samnites. ..."
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