Rasenna

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proper noun

The Etruscans, collectively.

Scrabble 7

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Rasena · alternative Rasenae · alternative Rasennae

  1. The Etruscans, collectively.

    The Etruscan people of historical times—the Rasenna—were very likely the result of a gradual fusion of native and immigrant populations.

    2013, Fred Kleiner, Gardner’s Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective
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    The Rasenna were to the Romans a foreign nation speaking an unknown tongue. […] The cities of the Rasenna in Campania, whose communications with the mother country, whether by land or sea, were not cut of, surrendered […].

    1898, Walter Wybergh How, Henry Devenish Leigh, A History of Rome to the Death of Caesar, pages 12 and 79

Origin

From the Etruscan autonym, 𐌓𐌀𐌔𐌍𐌀 (rasna, “the people”). Compare English Ravenna and Latin transenna.

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Rasenna. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Rasenna

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