The story
- Latin · derived fromPicenum
- Italian · borrowed fromPiceno
- English todayPiceno
From Italian Piceno, from Latin Picenum, an ancient region of Italy, from pīcus (“woodpecker”), the name of the local tribe's sacred animal.
Words from the same roots
LatinPicenum all →
picenePicenum
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.