Oscan

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or pertaining to the Oscan language or Oscan people, or their writing system.

Noun

• A member of an ancient group of Italic-speaking peoples of Campania (the Osci).

Proper Noun

• The extinct language of the Oscan people.

Origin

• From Latin Osci, Opsci ("worshippers of Ops"), an harvest goddess, related to Latin ops, opis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-os- ("work"), from the verbal root *h₃ep-.