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Oscan, a. and n.|ˈɒskən|
Also 6–8 Oscian.
[f. L. Osc-us (pl. Osci) Oscan + -an.]
A. adj.
a. Of or pertaining to the Osci (also called Opsci, Opici), a pre-Sabellian people centred on Campania in southern Italy.
b. Of or pertaining to the Italic language called Oscan (see sense b of the n.).
1598R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus' Annals iv. 95 The Oscian play, a light sport pleasing the peoples humor. 1600Holland tr. Livy's Romane Hist. x. 365 Such as were well seene in the Osciane toung. 1649J. Ogilby tr. Virgil's Aeneid vii. 24 Saticulus with them And Oscian bands. 1728T. Gordon tr. Tacitus' Annals iv, in Works I. 164 The Oscan Farce, formerly only the contemptible delight of the vulgar. 1731J. Trapp tr. Virgil's Aeneid vii, in Works III. 92 And the Oscian Band. 1797G. Baker tr. Livy's Hist. Rome II. x. 356 He..sent persons, who understood the Oscan language. 1845[see Umbrian a. 1]. 1948D. Diringer Alphabet ii. ix. 503 The Oscan script..was an offshoot of the Etruscan alphabet in its southern Campano-Etruscan sub-species. 1958E. Pulgram Tongues of Italy xvii. 229, I do not believe in the existence of Umbrian, Oscan, and Latinian types of dialects outside of Italy. 1958E. Badian Foreign Clientelae ix. 195 Of other patrons of Marius we know of the Herennii,..themselves of Oscan origin. 1969E. T. Salmon Roman Colonization v. 88 Atella and Calatia, also joined Hannibal, as did a number of the Oscan and Greek allies of Rome in southern Italy. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XIV. 789/2 The Oscan village of Pompeii..soon came under the influence of the cultured Greeks..across the bay.
B. n.
a. A member of the Osci.
b. A name given to the Italic dialects of central and southern Italy, used by the Sabellian peoples who displaced or absorbed the Osci. See Osco-Umbrian a. and n.
1753C. Pitt tr. Virgil's Aeneid vii, in Works III. 355 The rough Saticulan and Oscan stood. 1813J. C. Eustace Tour through Italy II. x. 258 Oscan was not unknown even in the age of Cicero and Augustus. 1835[see Ligurian n.]. 1882[see Umbrian n. 2]. 1897R. S. Conway Italic Dial. II. 472 In some few cases in Oscan the final -s of the Nom. and Gen. is still wanting. 1934S. Robertson Devel. Mod. Eng. (1936) ii. 21 Of the latter [sc. non-Latin Italic dialects], the Oscan and the Umbrian..are to be distinguished. 1939[see Marsian n. and a.]. 1948D. Diringer Alphabet ii. ix. 501 The Oscans..or Osci, in Greek, Oskoi or Opikoi, from Opsci or Opici..were Italic tribes who inhabited southern Italy in the second half of the first millennium b.c. 1969H. V. Morton Traveller in S. Italy vii. 272 We encountered a workman, still apparently speaking Oscan. 1969E. T. Salmon Roman Colonization ii. 44 In 354, Rome signed an alliance with the Samnites, an Oscan-speaking people of the south. Ibid. ix. 149 Sulla's colonies in the north and south had helped to bring the use of Etruscan and Oscan to an end. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XIV. 789/2 It seems certain that Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae were first settled by the Oscans. 1976Archivum Linguisticum VII. 62 Latin shares a number of lexical items with Oscan. |