Etruscan

Definition: Etruscan

Etruscan

Noun

1. A native or inhabitant of ancient Etruria; the Etruscans influenced the Romans (who had suppressed them by about 200 BC).

Date "Etruscan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Etruscan \E*trus"can\, noun. [Latin expression Etruscus.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: Etruscan

English words defined with "Etruscan": Lucius Tarquinius Superbus ♦ Tarquin, Tarquin the Proud, Tarquinius, Tarquinius Superbus. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Etruscan": Scaevola. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Etruscan

Domain	Title
Books	D.H. Lawrence and Italy: Twilight in Italy, Sea and Sardinia, Etruscan Places (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (reference) Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture (Pelican History of Art) (reference) Etruscan Civilization: A Cultural History (reference) Etruscan Roman Remains (reference) Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Etruscan

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Photo Album: Etruscan

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Double-handled urn, detail of urn pedestal, and two kylix kraters in the Vatican Palace, probably in the Etruscan Museum, Rome.Credit: Library of Congress.		An Etruscan arch, Augusta, Perugia.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Odysseus attacking Circe, Etruscan mirror - New York / F. Eudell.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Etruscan

"Etruscan" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.23% of the time. "Etruscan" is used about 52 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	94.23%	49	48,677
Noun (proper)	3.85%	2	245,945
Noun (singular)	1.92%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	52	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Etruscan

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Etruscan": etruscan-style.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Etruscan

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
etruscan	53	architecture etruscan	3
etruscan art	16	etruscan european italy language latin prehistory	3
etruscan ring	15	etruscan mythology	2
etruscan jewelry	12	culture etruscan	2
etruscan map	6	etruscan temple	2
the etruscan language	5	etruscan religion	2
bronze etruscan statue	5	coast etruscan	2
etruscan civilization	4	antiquity art etruscan	2
etruscan history	4	ancient etruscan ruler	2
etruscan majolica	4	bronze etruscan forgery	2
bronze etruscan	4	etruscan hoop	2
etruscan italy	3	etruscan ruler	2
etruscan tomb	3	alphabet etruscan	2
etruscan god veive	3	etruscan vase	2
band etruscan	3	etruscan itinerary	2
etruscan wedding band	3	etruscan king	2
antiquity collection etruscan,greek,and roman	3	etruscan woman	2
gorham etruscan	3
		etruscan woman	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Etruscan

Language		Translations for "Etruscan"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		Etruskies (Etrurian), Etruries (Etrurian), Etruriër (Etrurian). (various references)

Albanian		etrusk (tyrrhene, Tyrrhenian). (various references)

Bulgarian		етруски език, етруски (tyrrhene), етруск (tyrrhene). (various references)

Dutch		Etruskisch (Etrurian), Etrurisch (Etrurian). (various references)

Esperanto		etrusko (Etrurian), etruska (Etrurian). (various references)

Finnish		etruskilainen. (various references)

French		Etrusque (Etrurian), étrusque (Etrurian). (various references)

German		etruskisch, etruskerin, etrusker. (various references)

Hungarian		etruszk. (various references)

Italian		etrusco (etrurian). (various references)

Manx		Etruscagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		etruscanay

Portuguese		etrusco (Etrurian, etude), escola inglesa. (various references)

Romanian		etrusc. (various references)

Russian		этрусский (tyrrhene). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		etrurski, etrurac. (various references)

Spanish		etrusco. (various references)

Swedish		etruskisk (etrurian), etrusker, etrusk. (various references)

Thai		เกี่ยวกับประชาชน � าษา และวั�'นธรรมอิทรูเรียโบรา�", พลเมืองของอิทรูเรียโบรา�", � าษาอิทรูเรียโบรา�". (various references)

Turkish		etrurya'ya ait, etruryalı, etrurya dili. (various references)

Ukranian		етруський. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Etruscan

Misspellings
	"Etruscan" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Erosca, Etrusci, Etrusco, Petruska, ultroscan. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Etruscan"

Words rhyming with "Etruscan" (pronounced 'E*trus"can'): AEsthetican, Antelucan, Cancan, Cooncan, Dellacruscan, Flucan, Incan, Jamaican, Majorcan, Molluscan, Moroccan, Oscan, Spheniscan, toucan, Vulcan. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Etruscan

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: centaurs, recusant, uncrates.
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-n-r-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: canters, carnets, centaur, curates, encrust, natures, nectars, nutcase, recants, saunter, scanter, tanrecs, trances, uncrate.
	-2 letters: acuter, acutes, antres, ascent, astern, caners, canter, cantus, carets, carnet, cartes, casern, caster, caters, causer, centas, centra, cesura, cranes, crates, cruets, cruset, cuesta, curate, curets, enacts, eructs, nacres, nature, nectar, rances, reacts, recant, recast, rectus, recuts, santur.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-n-r-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: chaunters, courantes, courtesan, nectarous, outrances, recusants, stauncher, transduce, truancies, truncates, uncreates, underacts.
	+2 letters: calentures, centaureas, centauries, courantoes, courtesans, crustacean, incurvates, lacustrine, nucleators, raconteurs, raunchiest, reductants, scattergun, subcentral, transduced, transducer, transduces, unclearest, undercoats, utterances.
	+3 letters: accruements, aeronautics, auctioneers, construable, cotransduce, counteracts, countryseat, crustaceans, curtainless, disturbance, enunciators, eructations, inscrutable, intercampus, nunciatures, nurturances, nutcrackers, precautions, procrustean, purtenances, reacquaints, reluctances, renunciates, sanctuaries, scatterguns, superjacent, transducers, translucent, ulcerations, uncastrated, unclarities, underreacts, unrealistic.
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