couehriu

Volscian

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kowiriom. Cognate with Latin cūria.

Noun

couehriu (ablative singular)

  1. governing assembly

Usage notes

It is unclear exactly what political body this term described or precisely what powers were held by this governing assembly.

References

  • Rex Wallace (January 1, 1985) “Volscian "sepu"/Oscan "sipus"”, in Indogermanische Forschungen, volume 90, number 123 (quotation in English; overall work in English), page 52: “https://www.proquest.com/openview/3870e9c3cc6fdfb01b7f8fc5d4ced621”
  • Carl Darling Buck (1904) A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary‎[1] (in English), Ginn & Company, page 207
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 157
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