Etymograph

English

Tiber

Tiber comes from Latin Tiberis, and goes back to Proto-Italic *Tiβeris.

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*Tiβerisreconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CETiberis
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1807Tiber

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*Tiβerisreconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CETiberis
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1807Tiber

Earliest quotation: 1807, Germaine de Staël Holstein, [Book I. Oswald.] Chap[ter] V.: “They traversed the Tiber without remarking it; they arrived…”

Every English word from Proto-Italic *Tiβeris

Today it means

name The river that flows through Rome in Italy.

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Etymograph / Proto-Italic *Tiβeris / Tiber

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