Tuscany

English

Etymology

Late 14c., from Middle English Tuscan, Tuscane, from Old French Toscane or Italian Toscana, from Late Latin Tuscānus (“belonging to the Tusci”), a people of ancient Italy, from Tuscus, earlier *Truscus, shortened form of Etruscus (“Etruscan”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tŭsʹkənē, IPA^(key): /ˈtʌskəni/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Tuscany

2. An administrative region of Italy, located north of Lazio and south of Emilia-Romagna.

Meronyms

• Arezzo
• Florence
• Grosseto
• Livorno
• Lucca
• Massa Carrara
• Pisa
• Pistoia
• Prato
• Siena

 

Related terms

• Tuscan

Translations

region in Italy

• Armenian: Տոսկանա (Toskana)
• Bulgarian: Тоска́на f (Toskána)
• Catalan: Toscana
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 托斯卡納／托斯卡纳 (Tuōsīkǎnà)

• Czech: Toskánsko (cs) n
• Danish: Toscana
• Dutch: Toscane (nl)
• Finnish: Toskana
• French: Toscane (fr) f
• Friulian: Toscane f
• Galician: Toscana
• Georgian: ტოსკანა (ṭosḳana)
• German: Toskana (de) f
• Greek: Τοσκάνη (el) f (Toskáni)
• Hungarian: Toszkána (hu)
• Irish: An Tuscáin f
• Italian: Toscana (it) f
• Japanese: トスカーナ (Tosukāna), トスカーナ州 (トスカーナしゅう, Tosukāna shū)
• Latin: Tuscāna f
• Latvian: Toskāna f
• Lithuanian: Toskana f
• Maltese: Toskana
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Toscana

  Nynorsk: Toscana

• Occitan: Toscana f
• Persian: توسکانی (fa) (tuskâni)
• Polish: Toskania (pl) f
• Portuguese: Toscana (pt) f, Toscânia f
• Romanian: Toscana f
• Russian: Тоска́на (ru) f (Toskána)
• Slovak: Toskánsko n
• Slovene: Toskana (sl) f
• Spanish: Toscana (es)
• Swedish: Toscana
• Turkish: Toskana (tr)

See also

• Etruria
• (administrative regions of Italy) regions of Italy; Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardy, Marche, Molise, Piedmont, Sardinia, Sicily, Trentino-Alto Adige, Tuscany, Umbria, Valle d'Aosta, Veneto ^{(Category: en:Administrative regions of Italy)}

Further reading

• Tuscany on Wikipedia.Wikipedia