Ausonian
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English
Etymology
From Latin Ausonia "Lower Italy," extended poetically to "Italy," from Ancient Greek Αὐσονία (Ausonía), from Αὔσων (Aúsōn), a son of Ulysses, who is said to have settled there.
Pronunciation
Adjective
Ausonian (not comparable)
- Of ancient Ausonia or the Ausonians.
- 1887, Theodor Mommsen, William Purdie Dickson, The Provinces of the Roman Empire from Caesar to Diocletian, page 172:
- master of the glorious art of proud Ausonian song
- (poetic) Italian.
- 1907 (1850), “The Palace of Art”, in Select Poems of Alfred Tennyson:
- Or hollowing one hand against his ear, / […] stay'd the Ausonian king to hear / Of wisdom and of law.
- Of or relating to the ancient poet Ausonius.
Noun
Ausonian (plural Ausonians)
- An ancient inhabitant of middle or lower Italy.
- 1823, “Chronology”, in Encyclopaedia Britannica:
- The Ausonians, the most ancient inhabitants of Italy, computed the day from midnight.
- (poetic) An Italian.
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References
- “Ausonian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “Ausonian”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.