Osca

Inherited from Latin Osca.

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Osca f

1. Huesca (a city and province of Spain)

• oscense

From Paleo-Hispanic Bolskan.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔs.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔs.ka]

Osca f sg (genitive Oscae); first declension

1. an ancient city in Hispania Tarraconensis, now Huesca
2. a city in Hispania Baetica

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Oscensis

• → Ancient Greek: Ὄσκα (Óska)
• Spanish: Huesca

• “Osca”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Osca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.