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Rasenna

Rasenna proper noun: the Etruscans, collectively.

Proper noun

Rasenna

  1. The Etruscans, collectively.
    • The Rasenna were to the Romans a foreign nation speaking an unknown tongue.
      […]
      The cities of the Rasenna in Campania, whose communications with the mother country, whether by land or sea, were not cut of, surrendered […].1898, Walter Wybergh How, Henry Devenish Leigh, A History of Rome to the Death of Caesar, pages 12 and 79
    • The Etruscan people of historical times—the Rasenna—were very likely the result of a gradual fusion of native and immigrant populations.2013, Fred Kleiner, Gardner’s Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective

Forms of Rasenna

alternative formRasena
alternative formRasenae
alternative formRasennae

Origin of Rasenna

From the Etruscan autonym, 𐌓𐌀𐌔𐌍𐌀 (rasna, “the people”). Compare English Ravenna and Latin transenna.

Questions about Rasenna

What does Rasenna mean?
Rasenna means the Etruscans, collectively.
What part of speech is Rasenna?
Rasenna is a proper noun.

Words near Rasenna in the dictionary

  1. rasedst
  2. raseglurant
  3. Raseiniai
  4. Raselgat
  5. rasen
  6. Rasenna
  7. Rasennae
  8. raser
  9. rases
  10. raseth
  11. Rasey

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