Italy的词源

英文词源

Italy

from Latin Italia, from Greek Italia, perhaps from an alteration of Oscan Viteliu "Italy," but originally only the southwestern point of the peninsula, traditionally from Vitali, name of a tribe that settled in Calabria, whose name is perhaps somehow connected with Latin vitulus "calf," or perhaps the country name is directly from vitulus as "land of cattle," or it might be from an Illyrian word, or an ancient or legendary ruler Italus.

中文词源

Italy：意大利

来自希腊语Italia,可能来自Vitali，意大利南部部落名，词源同拉丁语vitulus,牛，同源词有veal,vellum.即多牛的地方，牛场。

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