Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An extinct Indo-European language preserved in inscriptions from southeast Italy that date from the sixth to the first century BC.
  • adjective Of or relating to Messapic or its speakers.

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  • adjective alternative form of Messapian

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Latin Messāpia, ancient name for the region of Italy containing Apulia and Calabria.]

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Examples

  • Apart from the more recently discovered branches, there are also a number of weakly attested languages, including Venetic, Messapic, Illyrian, Thracian, and Phrygian.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Apart from the more recently discovered branches, there are also a number of weakly attested languages, including Venetic, Messapic, Illyrian, Thracian, and Phrygian.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Historians who are ready to accept that Illyrians and Albanians were one people must analyze the Messapic inscriptions, in Puglia.

    American Chronicle 2010

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