Example sentences for: etruscan

How can you use “etruscan” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Modern scholars attempt to explain the name more scientifically as being based on a word meaning `river,' or on an Etruscan name.

  • Away from the center, you can trace the town’s ancient beginnings in the Etruscan Guarnacci Museum (Via Don Minzoni, 15).

  • Most important of the original 12 towns of the Etruscan confederation, the town dominated Rome in its heyday of the seventh and sixth centuries b.c.

  • Ernout and Meillet, in their delightful Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine , urbanely review several rather far-fetched possibilities including LMN—well, it is a series—and elephas (elephant), but conclude with a shrug of their shoulders and a suggestion that the word might have come from Etruscan.

  • The largest collection of Etruscan art in Italy can be found in the 16th-century Villa Giulia in the northwest area of the Villa Borghese park.


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