| 释义 |
Vestinian, n. and a.|vɛˈstɪnɪən|
[f. L. Vestīni + -an.]
A. n.
a. A member of an ancient Oscan people who lived in the Gran Sasso d'Italia area of Italy.
b. The language of this people.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people or their language.
1578, etc. [see Marrucinian n. and a.]. 1933,1939[see Marsian n. and a.]. 1966M. S. Beeler in Birnbaum & Puhvel Anc. Indo-European Dial. 53 So far as I know no voice has..ever been raised to question the propriety of regarding these languages (and the minor dialects of the Paelignians, Marrucinians, Vestinians, and Volscians) as differentiated forms of a single common ancestor..here termed Oscan-Umbrian. |