1. etruscan - Noun
2. etruscan - Adjective
3. Etruscan - Proper noun
Of or relating to Etruria.
A native or inhabitant of Etruria.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn 1907 I was most strongly influenced by Giotto during my first Italian trip, as well as by Etruscan sculpture and the early Etruscan landscape painting in the Vatican library in Rome. Max Pechstein
According to NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day, the mirage was caused when light was bent by warm air within the Earth's atmosphere -- a phenomenon known as the Etruscan Vase effect. Source: Internet
After 500 BC, the political destiny of Italy passed out of Etruscan hands, M. Cary and H. H. Scullard, A History of Rome (3rd ed., 1979), p. 28. ISBN 0-312-38395-9. Source: Internet
Alternate scripts Occasionally, Latin has been written in other scripts: * The disputed Praeneste fibula is a 7th-century BC pin with an Old Latin inscription written using the Etruscan script. Source: Internet
And so out of the various vav variants in the Mediterranean world, the letter F entered the Roman alphabet attached to a sound which its antecedents in Greek and Etruscan did not have. Source: Internet
A number of words and names for which Etruscan origin has been proposed survive in Latin. Source: Internet