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Volscian
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *kowiriom. Cognate with Latin cūria.
Noun
couehriu (ablative singular)
- governing assembly
Usage notes
It is unclear exactly what political body this term described or precisely what powers were held by this governing assembly.
References
- Rex Wallace (January 1, 1985) “Volscian "sepu"/Oscan "sipus"”, in Indogermanische Forschungen, volume 90, number 123 (quotation in English; overall work in English), page 52: “https://www.proquest.com/openview/3870e9c3cc6fdfb01b7f8fc5d4ced621”
- Carl Darling Buck (1904) A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary (in English), Ginn & Company, page 207
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 157