censaum

Oscan

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Etymology

Disputed. De Vaan suggests an inheritance from Proto-Italic *kens-ā-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱens-.[1] However, on the basis of the unusual sequence /ns/—which is atypical in Oscan—the linguist Nicholas Zair suggests is borrowed from or influenced by a Latin term.[2] Regardless, the term is related to Latin cēnseō.

Verb

censaum (present active infinitive)

  1. to pass the census on
    • Tabula Bantina:
      pon censtur ḅansae toutam censazet pis ceus bantins fust censamur
      • Translation by Nicholas Zair
        when the censors at Bantia carry out a census of the people, whoever is a citizen of Bantia, let him be counted in the census

Conjugation

  • censazet (3rd-person plural future perfect)
  • censas fust (3rd-person plural future perfect passive)
  • censamur (3rd-person singular present imperative passive)

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “cēnseō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 107
  2. ^ Zair, Nicholas (2016), Oscan in the Greek Alphabet, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 130
  • Buck, Carl Darling (1904), A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary, page 313
  • Zair, Nicholas (22 January 2014), “The Future Perfect in Oscan and Umbrian, and the Ō-Perfect in South Picene”, in Transactions of the Philological Society‎[1], volume 112, number 3, John Wiley & Sons, →DOI, →ISSN, page 372
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