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Definition of Osco-umbrian
1. Noun. A group of dead languages of ancient Italy; they were displace by Latin.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Osco-umbrian
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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