Fescennine
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See also: fescennine
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (obscene or scurrilous): fescennine
Etymology
[edit]From the Latin Fescennīnus.
Adjective
[edit]Fescennine (comparative more Fescennine, superlative most Fescennine)
- Of or pertaining to the ancient Etruscan town of Fescennia
- obscene or scurrilous
- 1856, Richard Francis Burton, Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to El-Madinah and Meccah, G. P. Putnam & Co., page 20:
- At this hour the seat was as in a theatre, but the words of the actors were of a nature somewhat too Fescennine for the public.
- 1977, C. John McCole, Lucifer at Large, Ayer Publishing, page 108:
- And when Freudian fiction becomes – as it has become in America – but an inviting wall on which to scribble Fescennine filth – that, too, is another matter.
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /fes.kenˈniː.ne/, [fɛs̠kɛnˈniːnɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /feʃ.ʃenˈni.ne/, [feʃːenˈniːne]
Adjective
[edit]Fescennīne
Noun
[edit]Fescennīne m