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- proper noun linguistics An extinct non-Romance language spoken in the ancient region of Raetia in the eastern
Alps in pre-Roman and Roman times. - proper noun Rhaeto-Romanic, a grouping of modern Romance languages spoken in much the same region.
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The ē(²) here, as opposed to ǣ or ai, points to Etruscan creice (or Rhaetian?) as the source of borrowing, not Old Latin Graikos.
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"The ē(²) here, as opposed to ǣ or ai, points to Etruscan creice (or Rhaetian?) as the source of borrowing, not Old Latin Graikos."
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There is, however, a New Year's Eve custom in Lower Austria and the Rhaetian Alps that somewhat resembles our mistletoe bough practices.
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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[229] The Rhaetian wines had a great reputation; Virgil says,
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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Of all wines, he gave the (129) preference to the Rhaetian [229], but scarcely ever drank any in the day-time.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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[138] The Rhaetian Alps are that part of the chain bordering on the
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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This Drusus, during the time of his being quaestor and praetor, commanded in the Rhaetian and German wars, and was the first of all the Roman generals who navigated the Northern Ocean [466].
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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Of all wines, he gave the (129) preference to the Rhaetian [229], but scarcely ever drank any in the day-time.
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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The vineyards lay at the foot of the Rhaetian Alps; their produce, we have reason to believe, was not a very generous liquor.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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The latter, intrenched high on that tremendous natural rampart formed by the Rhaetian and
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