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tasconium

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Latin

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Etymology

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Possibly from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.[1] Compare Spanish tosca (“tuff”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tasconium n (genitive tasconiī or tasconī); second declension

  1. (geology) A white kind of earth resembling clay

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative tasconium tasconia
genitive tasconiī
tasconī1 		tasconiōrum
dative tasconiō tasconiīs
accusative tasconium tasconia
ablative tasconiō tasconiīs
vocative tasconium tasconia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

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  • tasconium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “tasconium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  1. ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “tasconium”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 650
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