Tuscany

English

Etymology

Late 14c., from Middle English Tuscan, Tuscane, from Old French Toscane or Italian Toscana, from Late Latin Tuscānus (“belonging to the Tusci”), a people of ancient Italy, from Tuscus, earlier *Truscus, shortened form of Etruscus (“Etruscan”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tŭsʹkənē, IPA^(key): /ˈtʌskəni/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Tuscany

2. An administrative region of Italy, located north of Lazio and south of Emilia-Romagna.

Meronyms

• Arezzo
• Florence
• Grosseto
• Livorno
• Lucca
• Massa Carrara
• Pisa
• Pistoia
• Prato
• Siena

Related terms

• Tuscan

Translations

region in Italy

Armenian: Տոսկանա (Toskana) Bulgarian: Тоска́на f (Toskána) Catalan: Toscana Chinese: Mandarin: 托斯卡納 / 托斯卡纳 (Tuōsīkǎnà) Czech: Toskánsko (cs) n Danish: Toscana Dutch: Toscane (nl) Finnish: Toskana French: Toscane (fr) f Friulian: Toscane f Galician: Toscana Georgian: ტოსკანა (ṭosḳana) German: Toskana (de) f Greek: Τοσκάνη (el) f (Toskáni) Hungarian: Toszkána (hu) Irish: An Tuscáin f Italian: Toscana (it) f Japanese: トスカーナ (Tosukāna), トスカーナ州 (トスカーナしゅう, Tosukāna shū) Latin: Tuscāna f Latvian: Toskāna f Lithuanian: Toskana f Maltese: Toskana Norwegian: Bokmål: Toscana Nynorsk: Toscana Occitan: Toscana f Ottoman Turkish: توسكانا (Toskana) Persian: توسکانی (fa) (tuskâni) Polish: Toskania (pl) f Portuguese: Toscana (pt) f, Toscânia f Romanian: Toscana f Russian: Тоска́на (ru) f (Toskána) Slovak: Toskánsko n Slovene: Toskana (sl) f Spanish: Toscana (es) Swedish: Toscana Thai: ตอสคานา (dtɔ̀ɔs-kaa-naa), ทัสคานี Turkish: Toskana (tr)

See also

• Etruria

regions of Italyedit

• Abruzzo
• Apulia
• Basilicata
• Calabria
• Campania
• Emilia-Romagna
• Friuli-Venezia Giulia
• Lazio
• Liguria
• Lombardy
• Marche
• Molise
• Piedmont
• Sardinia
• Sicily
• Trentino-Alto Adige
• Tuscany
• Umbria
• Valle d'Aosta
• Veneto

Further reading

• Tuscany on Wikipedia.Wikipedia