terramara
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English
Noun
terramara (countable and uncountable, plural terramaras)
- Alternative form of terramare
- 1890, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, page 497:
- In one room there are, however, a few local collections from prehistoric graves and terramaras. The most interesting of these is a collection of objects found with an incinerated interment of the Iron Age at Sesto Calende.
Italian
Etymology
From a dialectal variant of terra marna (“marl-earth”) or terra mala (“bad earth”).
Pronunciation
Noun
terramara f (plural terramare or terremare)
- (prehistory, usually in the plural) any land of the terramare, Bronze Age settlements in the Po valley
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
Terramare on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
