perusia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An ancient Etruscan and later Roman city which eventually became present-day Perugia, Italy.
Example Sentences
- "That is, Fabius marched to relieve Sutrium, defeated the Etruscans there, crossed the Ciminian wood, defeated another Etruscan army near Perusia, and then made indutiae with Arretium, Cortona, and Perusia."
- "Perusia has the epithet ‘Augusta’ in two inscriptions, and another refers to ‘Perusia Restituta’, which should most naturally restoration after the destruction of 40.¹²⁶ This implies that the city enjoyed Augustus' favour, as Saddington notes;¹²⁷ but that is no reason for largely rejecting the accounts of Imperator Caesar's punishment of Perusia in 40, excepting the fantasy of a massacre of the curial class."
- "The siege of Perusia in 41 seems, additionally, to have cost him^([Propertius]) a relative, a figure mentioned in elegy 1.22 and often identified with the Gallus who speaks in 1.21."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Perusia