ausonian
/ɔːˈsəʊni.ən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
An ancient inhabitant of middle or lower Italy.
noun
An Italian.
Example Sentences
- "Sometimes they marked the form of the silk-haired and graceful capella, with its wreathing horn and bright grey eye—which, still beneath Ausonian skies, recalls the eclogues of Maro, browsing half-way up the hills; and the grapes, already purple with the smiles of the deepening summer, glowed out from the arched festoons, which hung pendent from tree to tree."
- "master of the glorious art of proud Ausonian song"
- "Or hollowing one hand against his ear, / To list a foot-fall, ere he saw / The wood-nymph, stay'd the Ausonian king to hear / Of wisdom and of law."
- "The Ausonians, the most ancient inhabitants of Italy, computed the day from midnight."
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.
Origin
- Source language: Latin