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Marrucinian, n. and a.|mæruːˈsɪnɪən|
Also Mar(r)ucine, Marucian, Marusian.
[f. L. Marrucini + -an.]
A. n.
a. A member of an Oscan-Umbrian people living near Teate in ancient Eastern Italy.
b. The language of this people.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people or their language.
1578tr. Appian's Auncient Historie of Romanes Warres i. 25 The Marsians, the Malinians, the Vestinians, the Marucians,..and the Samnites, whiche people before had euer bin enimies, and hurtfull to the Romaines. Ibid. 31 A little Marusian aunswered hym, and kylled hym. 1600P. Holland tr. Livy's Rom. Hist. viii. 302 Every one of them, namely, the Marsians, the Pelignians and Marucines, were in feats of armes comparable and egall to the Samnites every way. Ibid. xxvii. 660 Hee dispatched likewise messengers before, through the territories of the Larinates, Marrucines, Ferentines, and Pretutians. 1601― tr. Pliny's Nat. Hist. ii. lxxxiii. 39 Medowes and olive rowes..in the Marrucine territorie. 1863W. P. Dickson tr. Mommsen's Hist. Rome III. iv. vii. 235 The small but hardy confederacies in the Abruzzi—the Pælignians, Marrucinians, Frentanians, and Vestinians. Ibid. 237 The territory of the Pælignians, situated in the centre of the Marsian, Samnite, Marrucinian, and Vestinian cantons. 1888J. Wright tr. Brugmann's Elem. Compar. Gram. Indo-Germanic Lang. I. 9 Of the Volscian, Picentine, Sabine, Aequiculan, Vestinian, Marsian, Pelignian and Marrucinian dialects we have only very scanty remains. 1933,1939[see Marsian n. and a.]. 1966M. S. Beeler in Birnbaum & Puhvel Anc. Indo-European Dial. 51 The so-called minor dialects such as Paelignian, Volscian, and Marrucinian. 1974R. A. Hall External Hist. Romance Lang. 48 The Sabellic dialects..: Sabine..; Paelignian, Marrucinian, Vestine, and Marsic in the central Apennines east of Rome; and Volscian. |