Definition of Oscan-speaking

1. Adjective. Able to communicate in Oscan.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Oscan-speaking

Oryzomys palustris
Oryzopsis
Oryzopsis hymenoides
Oryzopsis miliacea
Osage
Osage River
Osages
Osaka
Osaka Bay
Osakan
Osama
Osama bin Laden
Osasco
Osborne
Oscan
Oscan-speaking (current term)
Oscans
Oscar
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Oscar Hammerstein
Oscar Hammerstein II
Oscar Palmer Robertson
Oscar Robertson
Oscar Wilde
Oscar bait
Oscar the Grouch
Oscars
Osci
Oscillatoria princeps
Oscillatoriaceae

Literary usage of Oscan-speaking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Short History of Rome by Frank Frost Abbott (1906)
"One was made up of the Umbrians and the Oscan-speaking peoples; the other was Latin. ... The most powerful of the Oscan- speaking peoples were the Samnites, ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... might have been taken for a piece of Umbrian text appearing in a district remote from Umbria and hemmed in by Latins on the north and Oscan-speaking ..."

3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society by Cambridge Philological Society (1884)
"... Oscan-speaking inhabitants had settled after being expelled to make room for Sulla's veterans. Further the four inscc. were all painted at the corners ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... as well as the still Oscan-speaking Samnites and Lucanians, rushed to arms. No time was lost in proclaiming their plans for he future. ..."

5. Outlines of Roman History by Henry Francis Pelham (1893)
"... as well as the still Oscan-speaking Samnites and Lucanians, rushed to arms. No time was lost in proclaiming their plans for the future. ..."

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