OSCO-UMBRIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Osco-Umbrian mean? 

• OSCO-UMBRIAN (noun)
  The noun OSCO-UMBRIAN has 1 sense:

1. a group of dead languages of ancient Italy; they were displace by Latin

  Familiarity information: OSCO-UMBRIAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OSCO-UMBRIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of dead languages of ancient Italy; they were displace by Latin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Osco-Umbrian" is a kind of...):

Italic; Italic language (a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Osco-Umbrian"):

Umbrian; Oscan (an extinct Italic language of ancient southern Italy)

Sabellian (an extinct Osco-Umbrian language of ancient Italy that survives only in a few inscriptions)