Rasenna
English edit
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Etymology edit
From the Etruscan autonym, 𐌓𐌀𐌔𐌍𐌀 (rasna, “the people”).
Proper noun edit
Rasenna
- The Etruscans, collectively.
- 1898, Walter Wybergh How, Henry Devenish Leigh, A History of Rome to the Death of Caesar, pages 12 and 79:
- The Rasenna were to the Romans a foreign nation speaking an unknown tongue.
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The cities of the Rasenna in Campania, whose communications with the mother country, whether by land or sea, were not cut of, surrendered […] .
- 2013, Fred Kleiner, Gardner’s Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective:
- The Etruscan people of historical times—the Rasenna—were very likely the result of a gradual fusion of native and immigrant populations.