Marrucini
The Marrucini were an
History
The tribe is first mentioned in history as a member of a confederacy with which the Romans came into conflict in the
Language
Marrucinian | |
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Region | Italy |
Era | 2nd century BC [1] |
Indo-European
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | umc |
umc | |
Glottolog | marr1267 |
A few inscriptions in the Marrucinian language survive. They indicate that the language was a member of the
The opening of the Aes Rapinum reads Aisos pacris toutai maroucai lixs asignas ferenter auiatas toutai maroucai ioues patres ocres tarin cris iouais . agine.The name of the city or tribe that it gives is touta marouca, and it mentions also a citadel with the epithet tarin cris. Several of its linguistic features, both in vocabulary and in syntax, are of considerable interest to the student of Latin or Italic grammar (e.g. the use of the subjunctive, without any conjunction, to express purpose, a clause prescribing a sacrifice to
The form of the name is of interest, as it shows the suffix -NO- superimposed on the suffix -CO-, a change that probably indicates some conquest of an earlier tribe by the invading Safins (or
Gentes of Marrucini origin
References
- ^ "Marrucinian". Archived from the original on 3 February 2015. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
The tablet seems to have dated to the mid 3rd century BC.
- ISBN 9783110172089(Mouton de Gruyter, 1999)
- ISBN 9780631220398(Wiley-Blackwell, 2000)
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Marrucini". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. This work in turn cites:
- Conway, R. S.(1933). The Prae-Italic Dialects of Italy. p. 253 seq.
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