oscan in English
noun
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an extinct Italic language of southern Italy, related to Umbrian and surviving in inscriptions mainly of the 4th to 1st centuries bc.
In Pompeii, destroyed in 79 C.E., many of the street signs and graffiti are in Oscan , a language related to Latin but quite distinct from it.
adjective
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relating to Oscan.
The Oscan speakers adopted the Etruscan alphabet to write their language.
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1. Latin also included vocabulary borrowed from Oscan, another Italic language.
2. Brute (adj.) early 15c., "of or belonging to animals, non-human," from Old French brut "coarse, brutal, raw, crude," from Latin brutus "heavy, dull, stupid, insensible, unreasonable" (source also of Spanish and Italian bruto), said to be an Oscan word, from PIE *gwruto-, suffixed form of root *gwere-(1) "heavy." Before reaching English the meaning expanded to "of the lower animals."